Age Effects on Patient Drug Attribution Judgments
| Autor: | Seymour Fisher, David B. Larson, Stephen G. Bryant, Nancy J. Olins |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Community and Home Care
Drug medicine.medical_specialty Notice business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Pharmacy 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy 01 natural sciences 010104 statistics & probability 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Drug class Telephone interview Internal medicine Target drug medicine 0101 mathematics Geriatrics and Gerontology Medical prescription Psychiatry Attribution business Gerontology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Aging and Health. 4:101-111 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6887 0898-2643 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/089826439200400106 |
| Popis: | Data were obtained on patients' attribution of symptoms using two different post-marketing surveillance methods. In the patient-initiated method, outpatients were randomly assigned to have a printed notice conspicuously attached to the outside of their medication bags; the "outsert" requested the patients to monitor themselves during the next 2 weeks and to report via a toll-free telephone number any new or unusual symptoms. In the staff-initiated method, other patients filling the same target drug prescriptions did not receive any outsert but were identified at the pharmacy for a telephone interview 10 to 14 days later. The target drugs were chosen from two classes for which the major adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are well identified: oral antibiotics and tricyclic antidepressants. During the interview, for each reported symptom the patient was asked whether it might have been caused by the target drug. Results indicated that older patients, irrespective of the surveillance method or the drug class, appear to be capable of discriminating probable ADRs at least as well as or possibly better than younger patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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