Patient satisfaction with medicine information provided during hospitalization and after discharge.
Patients scored satisfaction with medicine information provided during hospitalization and at discharge on a 5-point scale where score 1 = not at all and score 5 = to a very great extent. Results are shown as mean of rating ± SD. No significant difference was found between the control- and intervention group with regard to satisfaction with medicine information provided during hospitalization (Mann-Whitney U test, p = 0.337) or at discharge (Mann-Whitney U test, p = 0.580).Approximately half of the participants (48%, 73/141) preferred receiving their medicine information both written and orally at discharge, and 2/3 of these expressed that this combination gave them the opportunity to validate and repeat the obtained information when settled at home. Of the participants in the control and intervention group, 21% (7/33) and 29% (34/118) respectively did not recall that they received a medication-status-list at discharge. There was no significant difference between the groups (p = 0.377).Of all participants, 26% (39/150) responded that they had questions regarding their medication after discharge (18% (6/33) in the control group and 28% (33/117) in the intervention group). The percentage of patients that had a question regarding their medication were higher in both control- and intervention group when looking at patients who reported a change in their medication (22% and 39,7% respectively). Among all patients who reported they had a question regarding their medicine a total of 67% in both the control group (4/6) and intervention group (22/33) found an answer to their question by searching the internet or contacting their general practitioner, pharmacy, hospital, relatives or visiting nurses, see 