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Clinical trialNCT01207180CompletedInterventional

Discharge Planning for Elderly Patients in the Emergency Department: Use of a Brief Phone Call After Discharge to Improve Medication Utilization and Physician Follow-up

SponsorUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillEnrollment157Patient Discharge
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Summary

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The investigators hypothesize that the acquisition and correct utilization of medications as well as arranging and attending follow-up appointments will improve as a result of a phone call intervention 1-3 days after elderly patients are discharged from the emergency department (ED).

Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of North Carolina Emergency Department

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Sept 2010
Primary completion
30 Nov 2010
Completion
30 Nov 2010
Last update posted
18 Nov 2011
Registered enrollment
157
Registry id
NCT01207180

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 11 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.