What should patients learn? Co-designing patient education to improve medication safety, professional-patient communication, and partnership.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adverse drug events are a major focus of patient safety research, but work is often limited to healthcare professionals' actions and inpatient populations. The patient work system provides a framework to understand the work done by patients and other nonprofessionals. The authors aimed to improve medication safety through the development of short educational videos designed to facilitate professional-patient partnership and shared decision-making by addressing the knowledge gaps and information asymmetry that serve as barriers to productive primary care encounters.

Methods

The authors first performed a narrative review to identify knowledge gaps and the most important medication management principles for patients to learn. Next, the authors conducted participato

SUBMITTER: Hendrix ZN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12447905 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature