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Medicines and driving: evaluation of training and software support for patient counselling by pharmacists [PDF]

, 2012
Background : The consumption of some psychotropic medicines has a negative effect on the fitness to drive. Pharmacists are expected to give useful advice to patients on their participation in traffic.
Boets, Sofie, Legrand, Sara-Ann, Meesmann, Uta, Verstraete, Alain   +3 more
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Readability of Malaria Medicine Information Leaflets in Nigeria [PDF]

, 2011
Purpose: To assess the readability of malaria medicines information leaflets available in Nigeria. Methods: Fourty five leaflets were assessed using the Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) readability test and by examining them for paper type ...
Auta, Asa, Banwat, Samuel, David, Shalkur, Dayom, Danlami   +3 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
doaj   +1 more source

Medicines information and adherence in HIV/AIDS patients [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Providing written medicines information is being legislated in an increasing number of countries worldwide, with the patient information leaflet (PIL) being the most widely used method for conveying health information. The impact of providing
AIDS Education Global Information (AEGIS), Anonymous, Becker MH, Consumer Medicines Information, Dowse R, Dowse R, Drugs.com, Eaton ML, Gordis L, Haynes RB, Haynes RB, HIV Clinic, Holt GA, Homedes N, Hussey LC, Klingbeil C, Larrat EP, Linkewich JA, Morris LA, Morris LS, Nichols-English G, Raynor DK, Regner MJ, Report of the National Work Group on Literacy and Health, Rolland PD, Sless D, South African Electronic Package Inserts, The Access Project, Turnbull A, UNAIDS, Weiss BD, Working Party, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Merck S &, World Health Organisation   +32 more
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Literature review of visual representation of the results of benefit–risk assessments of medicinal products [PDF]

, 2015
Background The PROTECT Benefit–Risk group is dedicated to research in methods for continuous benefit–risk monitoring of medicines, including the presentation of the results, with a particular emphasis on graphical methods.
Alain Micaleff, Alex Asiimwe, Alfons Lieftucht, Christine E. Hallgreen, Deborah Ashby, Diana Hughes, Georgy Genov, Gerald Downey, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Lawrence D. Phillips, null null, Rebecca Noel, Richard Hermann, Ruth Peters, Shahrul Mt-Isa, Susan Talbot   +15 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the knowledge of graphical symbols labelled on malaria rapid diagnostic tests in four international settings [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Graphical symbols on in vitro diagnostics (IVD symbols) replace the need for text in different languages and are used on malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) marketed worldwide.
Veerle Hermans, Lianet Monzote, Björn Van den Sande, Pierre Mukadi, Thai Sopheak, Philippe Gillet, Jan Jacobs   +6 more
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Did the French pregnancy pictogram change antiseizure medication use during pregnancy?

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to assess the impact of introducing a pregnancy pictogram on medication packaging on the prescription and dispensation of antiseizure medications and on the maternal and neonatal outcomes for women exposed to these medications.
Mélanie Araujo, Christine Damase‐Michel, Marie Denuelle, Sébastien Boulogne, Laurane Delteil, Monica Saucedo, Catherine Deneux‐Tharaux, Isabelle Lacroix   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and evaluation of a new pharmaceutical pictogram sequence to convey medicine usage [PDF]

, 2004
Pictorials may be used to augment textual instructions in the depiction of safety and warning information on medicines. The objective of this study was to design, develop and evaluate a simple and culturally appropriate pictogram sequence for using ...
Dowse, R, Mansoor, L E
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Factors related to loss to follow‐up and low compliance in Helicobacter pylori‐infected children: The EuroPedHp Registry

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, EarlyView.
Factors related to loss to follow‐up and low compliance in Helicobacter pylori‐infected children. Abstract Objectives Monitoring for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)‐eradication is important, since symptom improvement does not indicate treatment success. Using EuroPedHp Registry data, we investigated characteristics of children missing monitoring visits
Thu Giang Le Thi, Kallirroi Kotilea, José Cabral, Michal Kori, Maria Luz Cilleruelo, Marta Tavares, Josefa Barrio, Vaidotas Urbonas, Matjaž Homan, Zrinjka Misak, Nicolas Kalach, Pedro Urruzuno, Martina Klemenak, Andreas Krahl, Andrea Chiaro, Josef Sykora, Meltem Korkut Ugras, Jan de Laffolie, Erasmo Miele, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Sibylle Koletzko, for the Helicobacter pylori & other Gastritis Special Interest Group of ESPGHAN, Thu Giang Le Thi, Kallirroi Kotilea, José Cabral, Michal Kori, Maria Luz Cilleruelo, Marta Tavares, Josefa Barrio, Vaidotas Urbonas, Matjaž Homan, Zrinjka Misak, Nicolas Kalach, Pedro Urruzuno, Martina Klemenak, Andreas Krahl, Andrea Chiaro, Josef Sykora, Meltem Korkut Ugras, Jan de Laffolie, Erasmo Miele, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Sibylle Koletzko   +42 more
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