NCT01388465

Text-message Support to Improve Oral Antibiotic Adherence After ED Discharge

Feasibility of Using Text-Message Support to Improve Antibiotic Adherence After ED Discharge

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are testing the hypothesis that patients who are exposed to daily text-message (TM) assessments with feedback will have better adherence to prescription than those patients not exposed to TM-based queries with feedback.

Detailed description

Short course, oral antibiotics are frequently prescribed to patients treated/discharged from the Emergency Department. Medication adherence involves the patient taking the proper daily dosing of prescribed medication for the entire length of time it is prescribed. Previous studies have shown that prescription non-filling rates range from 5 to 20%. Other studies have shown that even if patients fill their prescription, as low as 30-40% will properly take the medication. The purpose of this study is to determine if the proportion of patients discharged from the Emergency Department that are adherent with antibiotics is higher in patients that are provided TM support using self-report.

Conditions

• Medication Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mobile phone text messaging	Daily assessment followed by feedback

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2011-07-06
• Last updated: 2012-05-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States