Improving illiterate patients understanding and adherence to discharge medications
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Improving illiterate patients understanding and adherence to discharge medications
Adherence to a hospital discharge medication regime is crucial for successful treatment and to avoid increasing rates of drug resistance. A patient's success in adhering to their medication regime is dependent on many social, cultural, economic, illness and therapy-related factors, and these are often more pronounced in the developing world. Anecdotal evidence in Services Hospital, Lahore (Paki...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2050-1315
DOI: 10.1136/bmjquality.u496.w167