Ensuring patients' satisfaction with information about their medicines

Effects on hypertensive patients’ satisfaction with information about their medication after nurses’ consultation training

BACKGROUND There is a well-known problem in hypertension care with patients' adherence to treatment. Patients who score high in answering the instrument Satisfaction with Information about Medicine Scale are reported to have greater adherence to their medication. AIM To explore how hypertensive patients' satisfaction with information about their medicines was affected by nurses' education in ...

Cross sectional survey of patients' satisfaction with information about cancer.

The Satisfaction with Information about Medicines Scale (SIMS): a new measurement tool for audit and research.

OBJECTIVE To develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Information about Medicines Scale (SIMS), a new 17-item tool designed to assess the extent to which patients feel they have received enough information about prescribed medicines. METHODS Patients from eight diagnostic categories were recruited at hospitals in London and Brighton and completed the SIMS quest...

Patients' general satisfaction with telephone counseling by pharmacists and effects on satisfaction with information and beliefs about medicines: Results from a cluster randomized trial.

OBJECTIVE Assess effects of pharmacists' counseling by telephone on patients' satisfaction with counseling, satisfaction with information and beliefs about medicines for newly prescribed medicines. METHODS A cluster randomized trial in Dutch community pharmacies. Patients ≥18 years were included when starting with antidepressants, bisphosphonates, RAS-inhibitors or statins. The intervention c...

Written information about individual medicines for consumers.

BACKGROUND Medicines are the most common intervention in most health services. As with all treatments, those taking medicines need sufficient information: to enable them to take and use the medicines effectively, to understand the potential harms and benefits, and to allow them to make an informed decision about taking them. Written medicines information, such as a leaflet or provided via the I...