A Survey of Patients' Opinions and Preferences on the Use of E-Prescriptions in Poland.

ABSTRACT: E-prescription is already used in many countries, improving the standard of patient care. Officially, from 8 January 2020 e-prescribing has been obligated in Poland. Physicians' and pharmacists' opinions on e-prescribing have been widely researched and reported in the literature. In contrast, patients' perception has, to date, received little attention. For this reason, the aim of this study was to find the features and functionalities of e-prescribing that are desired by the public and influence the positive evaluation of this tool, according to patient opinion. In order to obtain data, a questionnaire was completed by 456 randomly selected adults. The obtained results indicated that only eight people (1.8%) did not know what e-prescription is. Of the remaining 448 individuals, 72.1% pref

SUBMITTER: Wrzosek N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8467067 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature