Name: Communicating Clearly About Medicines. Proceedings of a Workshop
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Author: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice;Joe Alper;Roundtable on Health Literacy;Health and Medicine Division;Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences
ISBN: 9780309461856

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Communicating Clearly About Medicines. Proceedings of a Workshop

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

National Academies Press

Author

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice;Joe Alper;Roundtable on Health Literacy;Health and Medicine Division;Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences

Year

2017

Pages

124

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9780309461856

Communicating Clearly About Medicines. Proceedings of a Workshop

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Synopsis "Communicating Clearly About Medicines. Proceedings of a Workshop"

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. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 Introduction and Workshop Overview2 Patient and Caregiver Perspectives3 Approaches to Health-Literate Medication Instructions4 Translating Research into Practice: Case Studies5 Exploring the Future of Health-Literate Design6 Reflections on the DayReferencesAppendix A: Workshop AgendaAppendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Reactors