PMID: 2497830Apr 1, 1989Paper

Is an information booklet for patients leaving hospital helpful and useful?

BMJ : British Medical Journal
D A SandlerS T Garner

Abstract

To determine whether a booklet given to patients being discharged from hospital giving details of their admission and treatment increased their knowledge and recall when reviewed in outpatient clinics. Patients alternately allocated to receive a booklet or to serve as controls. Assessment by a questionnaire at first attendance at outpatient clinic after discharge. Data were collected over nine months. One general medical and cardiological ward in a large teaching hospital and associated outpatient clinics. One hundred and thirty one patients discharged taking at least one drug and scheduled to return to clinic within 12 weeks. Patients stratified by age and by the number of weeks between discharge and outpatient appointment. A booklet was given to 65 patients at discharge from the ward; 66 patients served as controls. Of the patients who received the booklet, 56 (86%) knew the names of their drugs, 62 (95%) the frequency of the dose, and 55 (85%) the reasons for taking each drug. The numbers in the control group were 31 (47%), 38 (58%), and 28 (42%) respectively. These differences were highly significant (p less than 0.001). Twenty six (40%) who received the booklet brought all their drugs to clinic compared with 12 (18%) contr...Continue Reading

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