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Prescription painkillers and controlled substances: an appraisal of drug information provided by six US pharmacies

Author(s) -

Preetinder Singh Gill

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

drug healthcare and patient safety

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53

H-Index - 24

ISSN - 1179-1365

DOI - 10.2147/dhps.s42508

Subject(s) - readability , health literacy , pharmacy , grade level , medicine , literacy , medical prescription , index (typography) , family medicine , medical education , psychology , computer science , health care , pharmacology , world wide web , pedagogy , mathematics education , economics , programming language , economic growth

Health literacy impacts health outcomes. Health literacy is a measure of a person's competence to find, access, contextualize, and understand the information needed to make health decisions. Low levels of health literacy have been associated with poor health status. Health literacy can be enhanced by improving the readability of health literature. Misuse and abuse of prescription medicines and controlled substances is rising. It could be argued that improving the readability of the drug-information documents associated with these medicines could serve to alleviate this situation in a small, albeit incremental, manner. This paper provides a readability assessment of 71 such documents.

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