Patient education in the Emergency Department

What is the motivation for this research?

Optimizing patient education in the Emergency Department (ED).

Different information methods are used to provide information to patients in the ED. Most often patient information is given orally, in written form, and sometimes with audio-visual methods (e.g. video). Oral information given by the physician is often very brief, given swiftly and can therefore be difficult for patients to remember or reproduce.

What is the aim?

Our aim is to measure the effect of online audio-visual (video) and written patient information in the Emergency Department. We focus especially on incidence of post-concussion symptoms in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and on parents’ knowledge of pain treatment for their children.

How will you perform this research?

We preformed two multicenter studies:

• Parental Instructions for Analgesic Use in the emergency department (PAIN-study).
• Mild traumatic brain injury and Outcomes from VIsual patient Education (MOVIE): A randomized controlled trial.

What is the desirable outcome?

Optimizing patient education in the Emergency Department.

Status

Ongoing project / Pre-clinical

Start date: December 2015
End date: December 2019 (estimated)

Our aim is to measure the effect of online audio-visual (video) and written patient information in the Emergency Department. We focus especially on incidence of post-concussion symptoms in patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and on parents’ knowledge of pain treatment for their children.

 

We preformed two multicenter studies:

• Parental Instructions for Analgesic Use in the emergency department (PAIN-study)

• Mild traumatic brain injury andOutcomes fromVIsual patientEducation (MOVIE): A randomized controlled trial

• Grant SGO fonds
• Grant Hersenstichting
• Grant SFG fonds
• Grand Stichting Coolsingel

Collaborations within Erasmus MC

• Department of Public Health
• Department of General pediatrics
• Department of Pediatric Surgery
• Department of Pediatric Anesthesia
• Department of Neurology

Collaborations outside of Erasmus MC

• Albert Schweitzer Hospital
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Haaglanden Medical Centre, The Hague
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Sint Franciscus Vlietland Groep, Rotterdam
• Departement of Emergency Medicine, Westfriesgasthuis, Hoorn
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Reinier de Graaf, Delft

A.E. Hoek, M. van den Hamer, C.K. Deelstra, E.F. van Beeck, D.W.J. Dippel, J.A. Haagsma, P.P.M. Rood. Attitude of patients, healthcare professionals, and noninjured lay persons towards online video instructions on mild traumatic brain injury: a cross-sectional study. Int J Emerg Med. 2017 Dec;10(1):25.

A.E. Hoek, M.A.J. de Ridder, P. Patka, P.P.M. Rood. Effective strategy for improving instructions for analgesic use in the emergency department. Eur J Emerg Med. 20(3);210-213, June 2013