Providing information on metered dose inhaler technique: Is multimedia as effective as print?

Family Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 552-557

  Savage, Imogen ^a,b   Goodyear, Larry ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Medicines information; Metered dose inhalers; Patient education

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; SALBUTAMOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METERED DOSE INHALER; MULTIMEDIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEOTAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMEDIA; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 0141961778     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmg510     Document Type: Article

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