About this Research Topic
Even the best drugs on the market can achieve their potential only when patients understand how to use them correctly. Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand health information, including prescriptions. In fact, it is estimated that a vast percentage of the global population have difficulty understanding health information. We believe that people around the world deserve access to affordable, innovative, and high-quality medication as well as to understand how to safely and properly administer those medications to ourselves. Pictorials aid are all items of illustrative matter, such as a pictures, story boards, slides, or models designed to supplement written or spoken information so that it can be understood more easily by a patient. Many healthcare systems globally use this technology to support patient counselling for better treatment results.
Research-based outcomes are an important factor for developing the quality and standards for the pharmaceutical sector. New, exciting roles challenging pharmaceutical care services and counselling tools need to be validated and screened prior their use. Pharmaceutical care, via counselling service delivery, can support cooperation between professionals in achieving the best therapeutic plan. Unbiassed assessment of different counselling tools to be used during medical interventions is crucial for patient safety globally.
We all have the right to receive health information in a format we can understand. Yet it is quite common for patients not to understand such things as discharge instructions and instructions on prescription medications. As a result, the rates of serious medication errors occurring outside of healthcare facilities, which lead to serious medical outcomes, are actually on the rise. The inability to understand medical instructions means that affected patients cannot properly care for themselves, their health, or the health of their children, which in turn means an unnecessary burden placed on our health care systems.
We invite pharmacists involved in the above research globally to contribute to this new Research Topic that highlights the need for pictorial aids and validated tools to enhance medication adherence and the pharmacist profession.
We welcome manuscripts on the below topics that include but are not limited to:
- New patient education interventions and services
- Education tools validation
- Adverse drug effects and the pharmacist’s role in prevention and counselling
- The clinical pharmacist counselling at the ward
- New services of clinical and hospital pharmacy
- Pharmacist, physician, and patient health literacy
- Advanced patient counselling tools, and methods for validation and implementation
- National strategy for patient education with the use of consulting tools
Research-based outcomes are an important factor for developing the quality and standards for the pharmaceutical sector. New, exciting roles challenging pharmaceutical care services and counselling tools need to be validated and screened prior their use. Pharmaceutical care, via counselling service delivery, can support cooperation between professionals in achieving the best therapeutic plan. Unbiassed assessment of different counselling tools to be used during medical interventions is crucial for patient safety globally.
We all have the right to receive health information in a format we can understand. Yet it is quite common for patients not to understand such things as discharge instructions and instructions on prescription medications. As a result, the rates of serious medication errors occurring outside of healthcare facilities, which lead to serious medical outcomes, are actually on the rise. The inability to understand medical instructions means that affected patients cannot properly care for themselves, their health, or the health of their children, which in turn means an unnecessary burden placed on our health care systems.
We invite pharmacists involved in the above research globally to contribute to this new Research Topic that highlights the need for pictorial aids and validated tools to enhance medication adherence and the pharmacist profession.
We welcome manuscripts on the below topics that include but are not limited to:
- New patient education interventions and services
- Education tools validation
- Adverse drug effects and the pharmacist’s role in prevention and counselling
- The clinical pharmacist counselling at the ward
- New services of clinical and hospital pharmacy
- Pharmacist, physician, and patient health literacy
- Advanced patient counselling tools, and methods for validation and implementation
- National strategy for patient education with the use of consulting tools
Keywords: pictograms, patient education, adherence and compliance, pharmacotherapy optimization by counselling, clinical pharmacy, medicine safety, patient safety, patient counselling, efficiency of pharmacy services
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