Premium
PATIENTS‘ KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THEIR MEDICATIONS ON DISCHARGE FROM HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
Pullar T.,
Roach P.,
Mellor E. J.,
McNeece J.,
Judd A.,
Feely M.,
Cooke J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1989.tb00222.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hospital discharge , family medicine , patient discharge , medical emergency , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , medline , political science , law
Summary Fifty patients were interviewed, on discharge from hospital, about their medications. Nine (18%) patients did not know, and a further four (8%) had inappropriate beliefs about why they were taking at least one of their discharge medications. Very few patients knew of significant side‐effects which they might expect, or precautions which they should take, and over half did not know how long they were to continue taking their medicines. A small proportion was unable to read the bottle or open the container. Thus, even patients who, by virtue of an in‐patient stay, have had a prolonged opportunity for education regarding their medicines have very little knowledge of their medicines upon discharge from hospital.