Preparation of Our Intelligible Explanatory Leaflets of Drugs and Questionnaire Survey of Outpatient's Views on them
| Autor: | Hidenari Hirano, Kohji Naora, Naomi Kawabata, Kikuo Iwamoto, Hisao Nishimura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Iryo Yakugaku (Japanese Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences). 27:598-604 |
| ISSN: | 1882-1499 1346-342X |
| Popis: | To supply drug information using documents is very important to ensure patient safety and the proper use of prescribed drugs. Such documents should include easily understandable information for patients. In the development process of drug information leaflets at our hospital, we incorporated reviews of the documents made by normal individuals and not medical professionals. It was found that more than 100 of descriptions in the documents were given in language that was too technical to be understood by normal individuals. Approximately half of these descriptions were related to “drug effects”. We reviewed the information for 500 of 997 drugs using supplementary interpretations and more conventional expressions to make the drug information leaflets more intelligible.Acceptability of the leaflets by patients was evaluated based on a questionnaire survey to which 300 outpatients responded. As a result, most of the patients reported that the “drug effects” and “initial symptoms of adverse reactions” in the documents were easy to understand by 89% and 81 % of the patients, respectively.From these results, our drug information service using more intelligible leaflets was found to effectively promote a better understanding of prescribed drugs, thus leading to their safe and proper use. |
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