251. Patient Information Leaflets, are they Too Complicated?

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Patients’ views on electronic patient information leaflets

BACKGROUND Information in society and in health care is currently undergoing a transition from paper to digital formats, and the main source of information will probably be electronic in the future. OBJECTIVE To explore patients' use and perceptions of the patient information leaflet included in the medication package, and their attitude towards a transition to an electronic version. METHOD...

Cisapride and Patient Information Leaflets Letters Correspondance

dinal weights for the analyses in this cycle. However, only cross-sectional and longitudinal weights are calculated in the NLSCY file; bootstrap methodology is not used. In a forthcoming follow-up study of hunger in NLSCY families we compared adjusted prevalence rates of hunger in 1994 and 1996. The population estimates of child hunger in Canada using weights were 1.4% (53 995 children) and 1.6...