Enrollment of participants
terminally illness, aphasia, dementia
MAY
A total of 250 patients were enrolled in the study from July 2018 to May 2019. The patients were enrolled from the two selected hospital wards by the first three authors from the MIC. All admitted patients at the two wards were assessed and eligible participants were subsequently approached for enrollment. Eligible participants were 18 years or older, spoke and understood Danish, and were scheduled for discharge to their private homes within a few days after enrollment. Exclusion criteria included severe dementia diagnosis, terminally illness, isolation precautions, aphasia, suicidal or patients in custody. Length of stay and whether the patient used medicines or not were not exclusion criteria.Participation in the study was voluntary and all patients were given oral and written information about the study, publication plans and his or her right to withdraw from the study at any time without further consequences. All participants signed a consent form and patients’ participation was documented in their hospital files by the clinical pharmacists.