Health Literacy-Informed Communication to Reduce Discharge Medication Errors in Hospitalized Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Inadequate communication between caregivers and clinicians at hospital discharge contributes to medication dosing errors in children. Health literacy-informed communication strategies during medication counseling can reduce dosing errors but have not been tested in the pediatric hospital setting.

Objective

To test a health literacy-informed communication intervention to decrease liquid medication dosing errors compared with standard counseling in hospitalized children.

Design, setting, and participants

This parallel, randomized clinical trial was performed from June 22, 2021, to August 20, 2022, at a tertiary care, US children's hospital. English- and Spanish-speaking caregivers of hospitalized children 6 years or younger prescribed a new, scheduled liquid

SUBMITTER: Carroll AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792470 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature