Open AccessPatients' knowledge of drug treatments after hospitalisation: the key role of information
Author(s) -
Philippe Micheli,
E Gerstel
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
swiss medical weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1424-7860
pISSN - 1424-3997
DOI - 10.4414/smw.2007.11861
Subject(s) - medicine , drug , pediatrics , emergency medicine , psychiatry
Patients often do not know the reasons for taking their medications after hospital discharge. We investigated whether lack of such knowledge was associated with patients' report of not having received information about their medications while hospitalised.
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