Communicating Clearly About Medicines: Proceedings of a Workshop
by Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Health Literacy
English | Sep. 22, 2017 | ISBN: 0309461855 | 125 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Research conducted over the past two decades has shown that poor patient understanding of medication instructions is an important contributor to the more than 1 million medication errors and adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and even death.