NCT03125278

Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: HealthPartners Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Conditions

• Medical Audit

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication knowledge	Participants will be asked questions over the phone about their medications

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-11
• Primary completion: 2017-05-02
• Completion: 2017-10-31
• First posted: 2017-04-24
• Last updated: 2018-06-07

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States