Impact of patient education provided by the pharmacist on use of dry powder inhalers- a controlled study

• In: Hospital Pharmacy - Posters
• At: Istanbul (Turkey) (2009)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-048
• By: SHABARAYA, Ramakrishna (Srinivas College of Pharmacy, Mangalore, India)
• Co-author(s): Rajendran, S D (JSS College of Pharmacy Ooty, India, OOTACAMUND, India)
  Vishnusharma, M (Srinivas College of Pharmacy, MANGALORE, India)
  Suresh, B (JSS College of Pharmacy Ooty, India, OOTACAMUND, India)
  
• Abstract:

  To study the impact of the education provided by the pharmacist on dry powder inhaler (Rotahaler) usage in asthma patients. This study is another method to assess the medication adherence, which implies that a patient submits to the prescribers authority.
  
  METHODS: A parallel study was carried out through check list for eight sequential steps in..

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