Oversights, confusions and misinterpretations related to self-care and medication in diabetic and renal patients

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 246-252

  Mira, José J ^a,b,c   Ortiz, Lidia ^a   Lorenzo, Susana ^d   Royuela, Catalina ^d   Vitaller, Julián ^a,e   Pérez Jover, Virtudes ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b Internal Medicine Department   (Spain)

^c Research Network on Health Services in Chronic Diseases (REDISSEC)   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^e Consellería Sanitat Generalitat Valenciana ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Medication errors; Patient participation; Patient safety; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL ERROR; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEPHROLOGIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SELF CARE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGED; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICATION ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; NURSE; RENAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SELF CARE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 84901618280     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000358225     Document Type: Article

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