Prescribing Practice of Medication - Patient View.

Prescribing Practice of Medicinal Products From the Perspective of the Patient.

In the clinical routine of a hospital, there are often problems dealing with medication that has already been prescribed at the time of admission due to incomplete or missing medication lists from the family doctor. Often patients forget this list at home.

This pilot study focuses on the medication process from admission to discharge and patient health literacy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Focus: Prescribing Practice
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Survey and Interviews

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 100

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Austria
  • Styria
    • Graz, Styria, Austria, 8036
      • LKH University clinical Graz , QM-RM

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 99 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

100 patients in the primary care clinic

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient hospitalised at the clinical ward of Endocrinilogy and Diabetology and plastic Surgery
• Patient with an minimum of 2 days hospitalisation
• good knowledge of German
• Age 18 to 99 Years
• Male/female

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neurological or psychiatric primary disease e.g. Dementia
• Rehospitalisation 7 days after discharge from hospital
• Patients who need intensive care

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Health competence of patients with focus on drugs.	Correct knowledge of the medication (indication) - assessed by Interview with the patient	6 months
Drug prescription from the view of the patient- Amount	Amount of prescribed drugs by descriptive chart review with CRF (Case Report Form) and interview with the patient	6 months
Drug prescription from the view of the patient- Type of drugs	Type of prescribed drugs by descriptive chart review with CRF and interview with the patient	6 months
Drug prescription from the view of the patient- Discrepancies	Potential discrepancies between amount or type of drugs indicated by the patient and descriptive chart review with CRF	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Medical University of Graz

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 19, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 31, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): September 30, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 8, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 8, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): October 19, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 19, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 8, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: EK_NR_30-178 ex 17/18

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No