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HELPix for Medication Errors

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Led By H. Shonna Yin, MD, MS
Research Sponsored by NYU Langone Health
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up within 8 weeks of the end date of prescribed course of medication
Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will study whether providing bilingual, low literacy, picture-based medication instruction sheets to parents can reduce medication dosing errors, improve medication adherence, reduce hospital revisit rates, and improve provider-parent communication.

Eligible Conditions
  • Medication Errors
  • Medication Adherence

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~within 8 weeks of the end date of prescribed course of medication
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and within 8 weeks of the end date of prescribed course of medication for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Medication dosing error (observed)

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Active Control
Group I: HELPixActive Control1 Intervention
Low literacy, bilingual (English/Spanish) medication instruction sheets used as a framework for provider medication counseling, plus provider dose demonstration, parent teachback/showback, provider medication log review, provision of oral dosing syringe to parent
Group II: ControlActive Control1 Intervention
Standard provider medication counseling

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Who is running the clinical trial?

NYU Langone HealthLead Sponsor
1,369 Previous Clinical Trials
839,439 Total Patients Enrolled
2 Trials studying Medication Errors
1,256 Patients Enrolled for Medication Errors
New York City Health and Hospitals CorporationOTHER
32 Previous Clinical Trials
7,277 Total Patients Enrolled
Robert Wood Johnson FoundationOTHER
157 Previous Clinical Trials
685,638 Total Patients Enrolled

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Improving Communication of Medication Instructions to Parents
2010. "Improving Communication of Medication Instructions to Parents". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01834924.
~81 spots leftby Apr 2025
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