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Basel Discharge Communication Project

NCT01540266 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 242

Last updated 2015-03-31

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Summary

Assessing whether structuring of discharge information improves the sender's recall capacity

Conditions

  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Information Structuring
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Communication

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Information structuring

Students were independently shown one of two videos in which the same physician conveyed the identical 28 items of information to an older patient (played by an actor) in either structured or non-structured form

PROCEDURE

no information structuring

Students were independently shown one of two videos in which the same physician conveyed the identical 28 items of information to an older patient (played by an actor) in either structured or non-structured form

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Selina Ackermann, M.Sc. · Basel University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2013-10-31
Completion
2013-10-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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