Research Catalog

Title

Communicating clearly about medicines : proceedings of a workshop / Joe Alper, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Alper, Joe

Publication

• Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• Communicating Clearly about Medicine (Workshop) (2016 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Description

xviii, 106 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Communication in medicine > Congresses
• Medication errors > Congresses
• Medical personnel and patient > Congresses
• Health education > Congresses
• Health promotion > Congresses
• Communication
• Medication Errors > prevention & control
• Drug Prescriptions
• Health Literacy
• Patient Education as Topic
• Patient Safety
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Communication in medicine
• Health education
• Health promotion
• Medical personnel and patient
• Medication errors
• Washington (D.C.)

Genre/Form

• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Communicating Clearly about Medicine: a Workshop, November 17, 2016 ... Washington, DC"--Page 93.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-92).

Contents

Introduction and workshop overview -- Patient and caregiver perspectives -- Approaches to health-literate medication instructions -- Translating research into practice: case studies -- Exploring the future of health-literate design -- Reflections on the day -- References -- Appendix A: Workshop agenda -- Appendix B: Biographical sketches of Workshop speakers, moderators, and reactors.

ISBN

• 9780309461856
• 0309461855

OCLC

• on1005082075
• 1005082075
• SCSB-8883954

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries