Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

HealthPartners Institute40 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Medical Audit

Interventions

Medication knowledgeOTHER

Participants will be asked questions over the phone about their medications

Eligibility

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (2)

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Regions Hospital

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Medication Knowledge Questionnaire

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.

Time frame: up to 5 days