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Technical solutions and software OPFARMSoftNova in the opinion of the pharmacy staff in community pharmacy - an exploratory study [PDF]

Farmacja Polska, 2021
Background: Pharmaceutical pictograms are important tools that can improve the quality use of drugs and adherence, particularly among people with low health literacy. However, designing high-quality pharmaceutical pictograms requires a multi-step process
Piotr Merks, Urszula Religioni, Damian Świeczkowski, Miłosz Jaguszewski   +3 more
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The evaluation of pharmaceutical pictograms among elderly patients in community pharmacy settings - a multicenter pilot study. [PDF]

Patient Prefer Adherence, 2018
The search for new ways to optimize the use of medications by patients has led the pharmaceutical community to promote the idea of introducing pictograms into routine practice. The main intention of pictograms is to ease patient adherence and to reduce potential risks or errors associated with the use of medications.To evaluate a series of ...
Merks P, Świeczkowski D, Balcerzak M, Drelich E, Białoszewska K, Cwalina N, Krysinski J, Jaguszewski M, Pouliot A, Vaillancourt R.   +9 more
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Patient counselling service with the use of pictograms as the example of pharmacist intervention to improving compliance and medicine safety

Cardiology Journal, 2021
BACKGROUND: Pharmaceutical pictograms have been designed to help communicate medication instructions to patients. Pictograms used within a patient counseling service can significantly improve medication compliance and adherence. The study aimed to assess
Piotr Merks, Damian Świeczkowski, Marcin Balcerzak, Urszula Religioni, Ewelina Drelich, Jerzy Krysiński, Dagmara Hering, Miłosz Jaguszewski   +7 more
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Evaluation of patient understanding of pharmaceutical pictograms for tuberculosis treatment

Jurnal Ilmiah Farmasi, 2023
Background: Pharmaceuticalpictograms can be used to help tuberculosis patients understand treatment information, especially those with low reading skills.Objective: This study aimed to analyzethe guessability score and the level of understanding of pharmaceutical pictograms related to the use of TB drugs.Method: This was an ...
Rachmawati, Ema, Aliefia, Dhea Nanda, Christianty, Fransiska Maria   +2 more
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Pictograms for safer medication handling by health care workers: a validation study in nursing students in Poland

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background and objective Medication use often causes errors that are dangerous to the health of patients. Previous studies indicate that the use of pharmaceutical pictograms can effectively reduce medication errors.
Piotr Merks, Regis Vaillancourt, Damien Roux, Rafał Gierczyński, Grzegorz Juszczyk, Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman, Urszula Religioni, Jameason Cameron, Mike Zender   +8 more
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Legibility of Pharmaceutical Pictograms

Visible Language, 2021
The design of medicinal information in leaflets and labels is often criticized for not meeting patients' needs. For that reason, there is an increasing focus on how the use of pictures, such as pictograms, may benefit patients on their medical journey.
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Challenges encountered by pharmacy staff in using prescription medication labels during medication counselling with older adults and solutions employed: A mixed-methods study

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023
Background: Prescription medication labels (PMLs) predominantly dispensed in English, are an important adjunct to medication counselling. PMLs are routinely used by pharmacy staff to counsel older adults about their medications.
Sumithra Devi Suppiah, Yi Wen Tan, Sarah Siew Cheng Tay, Valerie Shu Ying Tan, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Wern-Ee Tang, Alexandre Chan, Gerald Choon-Huat Koh, Rahul Malhotra   +8 more
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Availability and use of number needed to treat (NNT) based decision aids for pharmaceutical interventions

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2021
Background: The number needed to treat (NNT) is a medical statistic used to gauge the efficacy of therapeutic interventions. The versatility of this absolute effect measure has allowed its use in the formulation of many decision aids to support patients ...
Cassandra Nguyen, Mark Naunton, Jackson Thomas, Lyn Todd, John McEwen, Mary Bushell   +5 more
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Comprehensibility of selected united states pharmacopeia pictograms by illiterate and literate farsi speakers: The first experience in Iran – Part II

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: Conveying information to patients on how to use medications at the dispensing sessions and retention of this information by the patients is essential to the good pharmaceutical care.
Amir H Zargarzadeh, Sahar Ahmadi
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Comprehensibility of selected USP pictograms by illiterate and literate Farsi speakers: The first experience in Iran - Part I

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: Good understanding of medication instructions is paramount to a good pharmaceutical care. The aim of our study was to examine the understandability of the selected three most applicable pictograms by participants and their recall after ...
Amir H Zargarzadeh, Sahar Ahamdi
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