Usability of FDA-approved medication guides.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication guides are required documents to be distributed to patients in order to convey serious risks associated with certain prescribed medicines. Little is known about the effectiveness of this information to adequately inform patients on safe use.

Objective

To examine the readability, suitability, and comprehensibility of medication guides, particularly for those with limited literacy.

Design

Assessments of suitability and readability of 185 medication guides, and a sub-study examining change in suitability and readability from 2006 to 2010 among 32 of the medication guides (Study 1); 'open book' comprehension assessment of medication guides (Study 2).

Setting

Two general internal medicine clinics in Chicago, IL.

Patients

Four hundred and

SUBMITTER: Wolf MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3509312 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature