Assistive products in pharmacy practice to optimize medications use for visually impaired patients: Focus groups to explore community pharmacists' opinions and expectations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visual impairment can significantly affect a person's ability to take medications safely. Therefore, pharmacists need to ensure safe and effective access to medication information, particularly through the use of assistive products, which are devices that compensate for partial or total vision loss. Although assistive products are used by visually impaired patients for activities of daily living, their use in medication management needs to be more widespread.

Objective

The study aimed to investigate community pharmacists' opinions and excpectations on the use of assistive products in pharmacy practice to optimize and secure medications use for visually impaired patients. The goal is to transfer these assistive products to pharmacy practice.

Methods

Focus gr

SUBMITTER: Merenda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11231704 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature