Industry collaboration to implement health literacy strategies for patient counselling at pharmacy

• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HMI-017
• By: HALTON, Candida (University of Westminster, Psychology)
• Co-author(s): Candida C Halton
  Gregory Duncan: Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences , Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  Emma Andrews: US/Global Medical Affairs, PEH, Pfizer Inc., New York, United States
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Health Literacy (HL) is an essential element to safe and effective medicines use. Low HL is a risk factor for poor treatment understanding, lower adherence and poorer overall health. Pharmacists report higher drug errors with low HL patients. A Universal Precautions (UP) strategy is a validated process to mitigate these risks. There are..

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