NCT02468869

Improving Discharge Communication in the Emergency Department Through Information Structuring

Improving Discharge Communication in the Emergency Department Through Information Structuring: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 196 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of the proposed study is to assess the potential of information structuring for improving discharge communication. Specifically, the investigators aim to examine the advantages of an information-structuring skills training for physicians (compared to an empathy skills training) on discharge communication and associated patient outcomes, such as patients' information recall and adherence to physician recommendations. The investigators hypothesize that patients receiving structured discharge information from their trained physicians will be able to recall more information and show higher adherence to recommendations relative to controls (i.e., patients receiving discharge information from doctors trained in empathy skills).

Conditions

• Information Structuring Skills
• Empathy Skills

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Communication skills training "empathy skills"
BEHAVIORAL	Communication skills training "information structuring skills"

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-04-01
• First posted: 2015-06-11
• Last updated: 2018-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland