Influence of Medication Taste on Pediatric Prescribers' Prescribing Habits

Mayo Clinic

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Drug: Taste Test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01734759

12-005823

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if a medication taste test influences the prescribing habits of pediatric prescribers at Mayo Clinic.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• subjects possess prescriptive authority (e.g. MD, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, medication therapy management pharmacists)
• subjects have prescribed at least one of the study medications from one of the medication classes to pediatric patients at an outpatient clinic in the three months preceding the study

Exclusion criteria

• subjects do not prescribe any of the tested medications
• subject has an allergy to all of the study medications
• subject is pregnant or breastfeeding
• subject has a medical condition that prevents them from being involved in the taste test

Participants are advised to be within or accessible to the Rochester, MN area during study recruitment and accessible afterwards via mail, email or fax.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Taste Test

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: Taste Test