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The Usefulness of Patients Receiving Their Own Letter After an Outpatient Attendance

NCT00129636 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 84

Last updated 2019-10-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

As part of the NHS plan it has been proposed to extend some consultants' usual practices and to send all patients copies of the letters sent to their general practitioners (GPs) following outpatient consultations. The current Secretary of State for Health has further extended this proposal and suggested that patients should have a specific letter to themselves after a hospital consultation.

The aim of this study is to send patients both a copy of the letter sent to their GPs and a specific letter to themselves and to assess the usefulness and comprehensibility of each.

Conditions

  • Heart Diseases
  • Lung Diseases

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Additional specific letter written to patient

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Imperial College London

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Martyn R Partridge, MD FRCP · Imperial College London

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-03-31
Primary Completion
2005-01-31
Completion
2005-07-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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