NCT01361932

Using Online Videos to Supplement Emergency Department Discharge Instructions

Speak Fast, Use Jargon, and Don't Repeat Yourself: Using Online Videos to Supplement Emergency Department Discharge Instructions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 133 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project will evaluate the effectiveness of 38 videos of discharge instructions for patients seen in, and discharged from, the emergency department (ED). The investigators will (1) assess how many ED patients chose view the website, and (2) interview patients who viewed a video, as well as those who didn't view a video (and therefore received standard care), to determine whether patients who viewed a video understood their diagnoses and discharge instructions better.

Conditions

• Emergency Department Discharge Instructions
• Instruction Videos

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Video of ED discharge instructions for patient's ED discharge diagnosis	Link provided for a website of 38 ED discharge instruction videos, based on ED discharge diagnosis; patients in study group encouraged to view it upon returning home. Three key questions asked by RA 1 to 5 days later, via phone call, and answers scored.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-01-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2011-05-27
• Last updated: 2013-03-27