What older complex chronic patients need to know about their everyday medication for safe drug use

Expert Opinion on Drug Safety

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 713-721

  Mira, José Joaquín ^a,b,c   Martínez Jimeno, Luciana ^a,d   Orozco Beltrán, Domingo ^a,b   Iglesias Alonso, Fuescinla ^e   Lorenzo, Susana ^f   Nuño, Roberto ^g   Pérez, Pastora ^h   Toro, Nuria ^g   Pérez Jover, Virtudes ^b   Gil Guillen, Vicente ^b  

^a Departamento de Salud Sant Joan Alacant   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c RETIC REDISSEC ^*  (Spain)

^d Servicio de Farmacia   (Spain)

^e Servicio de Salud de Castilla La Mancha SESCAM   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^g Fundación Vasca de Innovación e Investigación Sanitarias   (Spain)

^h Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Medication; Patient medication knowledge; Patient safety; Patient physician communication

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; SPAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG STORAGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYPHARMACY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DRUG STORAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SPAIN;

EID: 84901309928     PISSN: 14740338     EISSN: 1744764X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14740338.2014.916272     Document Type: Article

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