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Personal Health Records and Elder Medication Use Quality

NCT02012712 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1163

Last updated 2019-08-28

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Summary

Purpose: To examine the impact of a personal health record (PHR) on medication use safety among older adults.

Background: Online PHRs have potential as tools to manage health information. We know little about how to make PHRs accessible for older adults and what effects this will have.

Methods: A PHR was designed and pretested with older adults and tested in a six-month randomized controlled trial. After completing mailed baseline questionnaires, eligible computer users aged 65 and over were randomized 3:1 to be given access to a PHR (n=802) or serve as a standard care control group (n=273). Follow-up questionnaires measured change from baseline medication use, medication reconciliation behaviors, and medication management problems.

Conditions

  • Adverse Reaction to Drug
  • Health Behavior
  • Medication Adherence
  • Physician-Patient Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Personal Health Record (PHR)

Iowa PHR is a Web-based application that features a tabbed interface design. Users can enter, view, and print their current and past medicines, allergies, health conditions, and health event tracking over time. An embedded tutorial video provides assistance with the system. The PHR was developed and refined using participatory design and focus group sessions as well as evaluation in a usability laboratory. The resulting design emphasizes the reduction of physical and cognitive demands on users, focusing on simplicity, readability, and quick navigation. Iowa PHR displayed a message when a user entered a medication with an associated Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders project (ACOVE-3) safety concern. This included 16 safety issues for 12 drugs or drug classes with safety concerns. We also adapted four general medication use patient safety indicators from the ACOVE project and displayed them to all users on a rotating basis upon login.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Iowa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elizabeth A Chrischilles, PhD · University of Iowa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
95 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-07-31
Primary Completion
2011-02-28
Completion
2011-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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