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Medication Reconciliation Technology to Improve Quality of Transitional Care

NCT01195051 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4818

Last updated 2014-03-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study addresses the problem of inadequate medication reconciliation as patients cross boundaries between inpatient and outpatient care (ambulatory care). The purpose of this study is to determine whether a new, computer-based application, integrated with electronic prescribing, improves erroneous discrepancies between pre-hospital medications and medications upon patients' return to ambulatory care.

Conditions

  • Medication Reconciliation

Interventions

OTHER

Electronic medication reconciliation

A new, computer-based application will be used to document and prescribe outpatient medications in the inpatient setting.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wishard Health Services

    collaborator OTHER

  • Indiana University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Weiner, MD, MPH · Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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