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Assessing the Understanding of Pharmaceutical Pictograms among Cultural Minorities: The Example of Hindu Individuals Communicating in European Portuguese

Pharmacy, 2018
One of the sources of poor health outcomes is the lack of compliance with the prescribed treatment plans, often due to communication barriers between healthcare professionals and patients.
Lakhan Kanji, Sensen Xu, Afonso Cavaco
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De l’intérêt des pictogrammes pour figurer les représentations sociocognitives de l’espace résidentiel

M@ppemonde, 2023
What emotional relationship does an individual have with his habitat? A negotiation simulation game between the different criteria of evaluation of the residential environment makes it possible to collect a corpus of data.
Anne Griffond-Boitier, Jérôme Valentin-Léautaud, Sophie Mariani-Rousset   +2 more
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Comprehension of prescription orders with and without pictograms: tool validation and comparative assessment among a sample of participants from a developing country

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Medication errors can often occur due to the patient’s inability to comprehend written or verbal medication orders. This study aimed to develop pictograms of selected medication orders and to validate the comprehension of prescription orders ...
Nisreen Mourad, Samar Younes, Lidia Mourad, Iqbal Fahs, Shatha Mayta, Racha Baalbaki, Wassim El Basset, Mariam Dabbous, Marwan El Akel, Jihan Safwan, Faraj Saade, Mohamad Rahal, Fouad Sakr   +12 more
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Comunicare gli spazi della salute: il set “Isola dei pittogrammi” per il wayfinding ospedaliero [PDF]

Culture e Studi del Sociale, 2018
The study explores how hospital wayfinding can employ communication design to improve the outpatient experience by using a pictograms based signals system.
Fiammetta Pilozzi
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Evaluating the impact of safety pictogram training on comprehension scores and knowledge retention among engineering students

Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
Safety pictograms are essential tools for identifying workplace hazards by providing critical information about health hazard risks, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and accident prevention. Effective safety pictogram training programs are necessary to
Celal Gungor
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A Technological Framework to Support Asthma Patient Adherence Using Pictograms

Applied Sciences
Background: Low comprehension and adherence to medical treatment among the elderly directly and negatively affect their health. Many elderly patients forget medical instructions immediately after their appointments, misunderstand them, or fail to recall ...
Rosa Figueroa, Carla Taramasco, María Elena Lagos, Felipe Martínez, Carla Rimassa, Julio Godoy, Esteban Pino, Jean Navarrete, Jose Pinto, Gabriela Nazar, Cristhian Pérez, Daniel Herrera   +11 more
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Cognitive factors increase errors of pressing open or close buttons in elevators

Journal of Human Environmental Studies, 2012
Many of you might have experienced pressing an "open" button when you actually wanted to "close" elevator doors. Earlier studies have focused on design of pictograms as the main factor causing errors of pressing buttons in elevators ...
Tomoyo Takahashi, Yosuke Hattori, Sachio Otsuka, Shinji Kitagami   +3 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 designed pharmaceutical pictograms among the Malaysian population

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
Background: Poor medication adherence to treatment regimen and medication errors among patients are the main concerns for pharmacists. One creative way to make medical information easier to understand, improve health literacy, and be more memorable for ...
Anil Tumkur, Pravinkumar Ingle, Quinnie Ling Sze Ning, Nurul Asikin Bustamin, Tee Kai Heng, Chai Tze Leen, Ketan Hatware   +6 more
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Cartographic Visualization for Indoor Semantic Wayfinding

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2019
In recent years, pedestrian navigation assistance has been used by an increasing number of people to support wayfinding tasks. Especially in unfamiliar and complex indoor environments such as universities and hospitals, the importance of an effective ...
Nikolaos Bakogiannis, Charalampos Gkonos, Lorenz Hurni   +2 more
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