Information about medicines to cardiac in-patients: Patient satisfaction alongside the role perceptions and practices of doctors, nurses and pharmacists

Optimizing treatment initiation: Effects of a patient education program about fingolimod treatment on knowledge, self-efficacy and patient satisfaction

“…This is in line with research literature showing that additional and specially trained communication programs on medication are more successful in satisfying patients' information needs than usual care (Ekman et al, 2007;Kooy et al, 2015;Mahler et al, 2012). However, consensus is lacking between physicians, nurses and pharmacists who is responsible for information provision (Auyeung et al, 2011). This study's comprehensive nurse-led program at treatment initiation in addition to physicians' information-giving at treatment decision is one possible answer.…”

“…The strength of this program is that all treatment-relevant aspects are comprised in a detailed format, including potential side-effects and safety issues. This responds to research showing that patients often wish more information on potential medication-related problems, whereas they usually are given more information on "action" and "usage" (Auyeung et al, 2011;Mahler et al, 2012).…”

Patients Perceptions of Medication Counselling from Community Pharmacies

“…This could be due to the fact that pharmacists do not recognise patient counselling as their responsibility. Auyeung et al [20] states that pharmacists were traditionally not involved in patient education and therefore physicians and nurses feel that informing patients about primary information such as action and purpose of the medicine is their responsibility alone. Another potential reason is language barrier due to the large ethnic minority population in London.…”

Low-Dose Alteplase Infusion for the Treatment of Mechanical Aortic Valve Thrombosis

“…In addition, the authors commented on the potential benefit of integrating physicians, nurses, and pharmacists into a team-based, interdisciplinary approach to the education of inpatient cardiac patients. 8 Nurses and pharmacists represent an optimal combination for the team-based approach to delivery of drug information to high-risk cardiac inpatients. Both types of professionals have frequent contact with, and the ability to provide care to, this challenging patient group.…”