What is it about?
Discussing medicines with patients is the responsibility of prescribers and pharmacists. This paper discusses how often general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists provide verbal information to patients about their medicines, and compare the information given with what patients want to know.
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Why is it important?
Informing and educating patients about their medicines is an important part of a health professional’s role, but is often considered unimportant possibly due to time pressures and previous discussions with patients. This leaves those with poor health literacy at risk of misunderstanding the importance of their medicines, how to take their medicines correctly, and also with little understanding of the associated risks of the medicines.
Perspectives
A systems approach is required to enable improvement in delivery of medicine information to patients at point-of-care.
Amber Young
University of Otago
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This page is a summary of: Do health professionals tell patients what they want to know about their medicines?, Health Education Journal, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0017896918763679.
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