Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication
- Conditions
- Medical Audit
- Interventions
- Other: Medication knowledge
- Registration Number
- NCT03125278
- Lead Sponsor
- HealthPartners Institute
- Brief 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
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Not provided
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Medication indication on the label Medication knowledge Patients discharged from Regions Hospital (St. Paul, MN) where we have implemented a standard process of printing the indication for all new medications on the prescription bottle. No medication indication given Medication knowledge Patients discharged from Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, MA) where there is no requirement for providing information on medication indications to patients at discharge.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Medication Knowledge Questionnaire up to 5 days 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.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Regions Hospital
🇺🇸Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States