Evaluation of efficiencies of the medicine bag printed with the patient drug information and the photographs of medicine: Comparison to the patient drug information leaflet with photographs of medicine
N. Kutsuma et al., Evaluation of efficiencies of the medicine bag printed with the patient drug information and the photographs of medicine: Comparison to the patient drug information leaflet with photographs of medicine, YAKUGAKU ZA, 119(12), 1999, pp. 972-979
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Journal title
YAKUGAKU ZASSHI-JOURNAL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Utilities between patient drug information leaflets printed with photograph
s of medicines (Leaflet method) and medicine bags printed with the same con
tent of the leaflet (Bag method) were compared and evaluated by a questionn
aire to patients. Four hundred twenty eight and 401 questionnaires were ret
urned for the bag method and for the leaflet one, respectively. Consequentl
y, the reading frequency of the presented literature by the bag method was
significantly higher than that by the leaflet method. The bag method was mo
re effective than the leaflet method on the reading frequency among patient
s at the age 50's, whose reading frequency for the presented literature was
thought to be lowest. Less than 20% of patients answered that missing to t
ake medicine could be improved by patient drug information, while more than
50% of patients answered that they could learn the names and the effects o
f medicines from the patient drug information in any method. The bag method
is useful to increase the reading frequency of the patients for the presen
ted literature about drug information.