Improvement of comprehensibility of drug label instructions using liguistic content analysis

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Seoul (South Korea) (2017)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HMIS-005
• By: BORGSTEEDE, Sander (Health Base, Medication Safety and Information Systems, Houten, Netherlands)
• Co-author(s): Ekram Maghroudi Medication Safety and Information Systems, Health Base , Houten, Netherlands
  Sander Borgsteede
  Gudule Boland
  Liset van Dijk
  Channah de Haas
  Marleen Journée-Gilissen
  Jany Rademakers
  Janneke van der Velden
  Henk Westerhof
  Charlotte van Hooijdonk
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Drug labels contain important information concerning use of medications: advices, warnings and dosing instructions. Comprehensible label instructions are important to support medication use. Studies show that many patients do not understand instructions on drug labels. In this study we have identified linguistic elements that influence..

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