Communicating clearly about medicines : proceedings of a workshop / Joe Alper, rapporteur.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Alper, Joe, rapporteur.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.

Conference Name:

Communicating Clearly about Medicine (Workshop) (2016 : Washington, D.C.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in medicine--Congresses.

Communication in medicine.

Medication errors--Congresses.

Medication errors.

Medical personnel and patient--Congresses.

Medical personnel and patient.

Washington (D.C.).

Local Subjects:

Washington (D.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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. Patients who have limited literacy skills, who have multiple comorbidities, and who are elderly face the greatest risk, and limited literacy skills are significantly associated with inadequate understanding and use of prescription instructions and precautions. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality notes that only 12 percent of U.S. adults have proficient health literacy that allows them to interpret a prescription label correctly. Given the importance of health literacy to the proper use of medications, and the apparent lack of progress in improving medication adherence, the Roundtable on Health Literacy formed an ad hoc committee to plan and conduct a 1-day public workshop that featured invited presentations and discussion of the role and challenges regarding clarity of communication on medication. Participants focused on using health literacy principles to address clarity of materials, decision aids, and other supportive tools and technologies regarding risks, benefits, alternatives, and health plan coverage. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction and workshop overview

Patient and caregiver perspectives

Approaches to health-literate medication instructions

Translating research into practice: case studies

Exploring the future of health-literate design

Reflections on the day

References

Appendix A: Workshop agenda

Appendix B: Biographical sketches of Workshop speakers, moderators, and reactors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2017).

ISBN:

0-309-46188-X

0-309-46186-3