Drug Information for Patients (Package Leaflets), and User Testing in EU
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Simplifying Drug Package Leaflets
Drug Package Leaflets provide information for patients on how to safely use medicines. European Commission and recent studies stress that further efforts must be made to improve the readability and understandability of package leaflets in order to ensure the proper use of medicines and to increase patient safety. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that directly deals with the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: YAKUGAKU ZASSHI
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0031-6903,1347-5231
DOI: 10.1248/yakushi.14-00232-2