Evaluation of a novel educational strategy, including inhaler-based reminder labels, to improve asthma inhaler technique

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-33

  Basheti, Iman A ^a   Armour, Carol L ^a   Bosnic Anticevich, Sinthia Z ^a   Reddel, Helen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Community pharmacists; Counseling; Diskus; Educational tools; Feasibility; Inhaler technique; Patient education; Turbuhaler

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFORMATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT PHARMACIST RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARMACIST; POWDER INHALER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG LABELING; EDUCATION, PHARMACY, CONTINUING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHARMACIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 44649143278     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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