RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Drug information for patients: bringing together the messages from prescriber, pharmacist and manufacturer
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 93
OP 97
VO 32
IS 235
A1 Andrew Herxheimer
A1 Charles Davies
YR 1982
UL http://bjgp.org/content/32/235/93.abstract
AB Patients may receive information about their medicine from the prescriber, the pharmacist and the manufacturer (in a package insert). If it is to be used effectively, all this information must be integrated: the different sources should complement, and not seem to contradict one another. Prescribers and pharmacists should therefore have at hand the text of any package inserts that patients will receive with prescribed medicines. In addition, doctors might be helped by an aide-mémoire, reminding them about the information which a patient needs to have about a medicine. Methods for improving patients' use of such information are also summarized.