Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
With
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
* A drug safety module called MedCheck was developed for PatientSite. This allows physicians to query patients automatically 10 days after they receive a new prescription asking them questions about their new prescription. In this study new enhancements will be tested.
* Participants will be assigned at random to the intervention group or control group. The intervention group will receive a single electronic PatientSite message asking them questions about the new prescription which is then forwarded to their physician. The control group will receive a generic message about medication safety.
* To identify adverse drug events, a telephone survey and medical record review will be conducted of patients in the intervention group and controls.
* This study will run for 12 months.