Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

Medical Audit Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03125278
• Other study ID #: A17-072
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 11, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: June 2018
• Source: HealthPartners Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a study to compare patient knowledge about the indications of their medications between two sites. Regions Hospital has a population of patients that receive the medication indication on the label for any new or changed medications at the time of patient discharge. Brigham Women's Health follows a standard policy of discharge medication labels including the name of the medication and instructions for use without any indication of what the medication is intended to treat. Consented patient will receive a phone call where researchers will ask about which medications they are taking and other questions about those medications.

The study population will be patients recently discharged from the hospital with 1 or more new or changed medications

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: October 31, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: May 2, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

1. Hospital Medicine (HM) inpatient being discharged to home

2. Patient being discharged with = 1 new or changed medications

3. English speaker

Exclusion Criteria

1. Inpatient being discharged to nursing home or TCU facility

2. Patient being discharged with no new or changed medications

3. Non-English speaker

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Medical Audit

Intervention

Other:
• Medication knowledge
Participants will be asked questions over the phone about their medications

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Regions Hospital	Saint Paul	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
HealthPartners Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Medication Knowledge Questionnaire	Scripted questionnaire administered on patients knowledge of their medication indications who received new, changed, or continued medications at discharge via phone call. Questions are focused on understand of relationship of the medication and what symptom or disease it is teaching.	up to 5 days