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A study team member will use the current hospital standard educational material to explain the discharge diagnosis to the patient, the treatment, and the follow up needed. The study team member will also give a survey with a preaddressed envelope to each participant to complete at his or her convenience.

A study team member will use the new personalized educational materials to explain the discharge diagnosis to the patient, the treatment, and the follow up needed. The study team member will also give a survey with a preaddressed envelope to each participant to complete at his or her convenience.

The patients will receive the current hospital standard discharge educational material which explains the diagnosis, new medications, follow up and any activity/diet restrictions. A member of the study team will explain this material to the patient and answer any questions.

Current standard discharge educational intervention

The patients will receive a new personalized discharge educational material which will explain the specifics of their disorder, the treatment, and prognosis. The materials will contain simple, organized explanations and graphics. A member of the study team will explain this material to the patient and answer any questions.

Personalized discharge educational intervention

Vijay Renga, MD

The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a personalized patient education program to the current hospital education and evaluate its impact using patient satisfaction scores.

The investigators hypothesize that a personalized patient education intervention will increase patient's understanding of their diagnosis and satisfaction with the care as reflected in the survey results.

Study team members will randomize patients to receive either the current standard hospital education material or the new personalized education material. Investigators will use a stratified randomization process to allocate the patients from different categories including age range, gender, and discharge diagnosis into each group. Thereby the investigators will achieve equal distribution of diagnoses and other demographics among groups in real time. They will review the two groups when performing statistical analysis near the end of the study to ensure heterogeneity of distribution.

A study team member who has also been a member of the care team will use the either the current hospital standard or the new personalized education materials to explain the discharge diagnosis to the patient, the treatment, and the follow up needed. The study team member will also give a survey with a preaddressed envelope to each participant to complete at his or her convenience.

The patient will not be informed of whether he or she is receiving the current hospital standard or the new personalized patient education intervention. The study team member will known which intervention is being used for patient education. The intervention arm will not be blinded in the data analysis.

Neurology Inpatient Clinical Education Trial

Investigators will protect patients' identity by using identification numbers that do not correspond to any personal identification information. They will enter the survey results to the institution's safely encrypted database.

The patients will answer a survey consisting of seven multiple-choice questions regarding their perception of the education intervention. Each questions will be scored on a scale of one to four for a total possible score of 28 for all 7 questions. A score of 1 indicates a negative perception of the education whereas 4 indicates the most positive impression. Therefore the lowest possible score is 7 for a severely negative perception of the education and the highest score is 28 for a very positive impression of the education program. Only the total scores will be compared for statistical analysis. Scores from patients in the current standard and new personalized education intervention groups will be compared.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Principal Investigator

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