Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

HealthPartners Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Audit

Treatments: Other: Medication knowledge

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03125278

A17-072

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Hospital Medicine (HM) inpatient being discharged to home
2. Patient being discharged with ≥ 1 new or changed medications
3. English speaker

Exclusion Criteria

1. Inpatient being discharged to nursing home or TCU facility
2. Patient being discharged with no new or changed medications
3. Non-English speaker

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Medication indication on the label

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Medication knowledge

No medication indication given

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: Medication knowledge