title: Using patient preference to customize a patient's medication list.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The primary objective was to identify medication-list components preferred by patients. Secondary objectives included identifying a patient-preferred medication-list template, measuring change in patient knowledge and responsibility after using a medication list tailored to patient preference and assessing patient utilization of a personalized medication list.
  
  
  METHODS
  12-week prospective presurvey and postsurvey from January 2010 to March 2011.
  
  
  METHODS
  Anticoagulation Clinic in Downers Grove, Illinois, with approximately 400 patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  53 English-speaking patients, 18 years of age or older, and taking eight or more medications. Cognitively and/or visually impaired patients were excluded.
  
  
  METHODS
  Consenting subjects completed the prequestionnaire. Patients were then asked to visually decide their preference between three examples of medication-list templates. Personalized medication lists were created from the preferences chosen in the questionnaire and mailed to each patient. The postinterview was conducted approximately 30 days following, and patients were retested on the knowledge and responsibility questions as well as five new utilization questions about the medication list received.
  
  
  METHODS
  The primary objective was to identify medication-list components preferred by patients. Secondary objectives included: identifying the medication list template that patients preferred, measuring change in patient knowledge and responsibility after using the medication list tailored to patient preference, and assessing patient utilization.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-four patients preferred a more detailed medication list. Thirty subjects participated in the postquestionnaire, and 54% preferred the most complex medication list. There was no statistically significant change in knowledge or gain in patient responsibility.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients preferred a more complex medication list as a reference to manage their home medications.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Tiffany
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Scott-Horton
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vest
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Kliethermes
mesh_terms: D059065:Medication Reconciliation; D057240:Patient Preference; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations