Status:
COMPLETED
Cancer Patients' Medication Knowledge in the Emergency Center
Lead Sponsor:
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Conditions:
Advanced Cancer
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Brief Summary
The goal of the study is to learn about patients' knowledge of their medications in an outpatient acute care setting (such as the M. D. Anderson Emergency Center) and to learn about any clinical facto...
Detailed Description
You will be asked to list your prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, herbal preparations and vitamins, minerals and supplements that you take. Information about you (such as age or gende...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients admitted to the Emergency Center
- Patients must be able to read and write English
- Patients must agree to participate and sign informed consent
- Patients 16 years or above. (Age limit explained below)
- Patients must be able to complete the survey tool. They may have help from a caregiver in transcribing the information but the caregiver can not fill the tool independent of the patient. A research assistant will be trained to discriminate whether a caregiver is acting as a scriber or independently completing the tool. If the caregiver completes the tool independently, the patient will be excluded from the study.
Exclusion
- Patients with altered mental status and those with an acute, emergent illness and hemodynamic instability (Examples: status epileptics, sepsis, and cardiac arrest)
- Employees of the institution with work-related injuries
- Visitors who are non-cancer patients
- Patients transferred directly from another hospital
- Patients will be excluded after their first enrollment during the study period. (Can only be enrolled once though may have multiple Emergency Center visits during study time frame).
- Patients will be excluded if all prescribed medications are filled at an external pharmacy and this pharmacy is not accessible.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2005
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
308 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00385476
Start Date
August 1 2005
End Date
February 1 2009
Last Update
August 1 2012
Active Locations (1)
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U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030