Expanding the Universal Medication Schedule: a patient-centred approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Improved drug labelling for chronic pill-form medications has been shown to promote patient comprehension, adherence and safety. We extended health literacy principles and included patients' perspectives to improve instructions for: (1) non-pill form, (2) short term, (3) 'as needed,' (4) tapered and (5) escalating dose medications.

Setting

Participants were recruited via convenience sampling from primary care clinics in Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California, USA.

Participants

40 adult, English-speaking participants who reported taking at least one prescription drug in the past 12 months were enrolled in the study.

Primary and secondary outcomes

Participant opinions, preferences and comprehension of standard and improved medication instructio

SUBMITTER: Bailey SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3902314 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature