Mike Schmitt, graduate student, will present a noon seminar on November 3 in SAC 1D28 and broadcast live to CPB 101 in OKC. His presentation is on "Factors associated with patient non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug risk awareness: The role of healthcare provider counseling and written medicine information." Everyone is invited to attend and support Mike!

 

Healthcare provider counseling and written medicine information are optimal points of intervention to enhance patient awareness of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) risks. Patient health literacy and background characteristics may also influence these relationships. Cross-sectional data from the Alabama NSAID Patient Safety Study (2006) were used to examine the associations of physician counseling, pharmacist counseling, and written medicine information in relationship to awareness of NSAID risks in a sample of older, white and african american adults. Physician counseling was significantly associated with participants' awareness of NSAID risks while pharmacist counseling and the reading of written medicine information were not. Barriers to communication in community pharmacies and inappropriately targeted written medicine information may diminish the effectiveness of these two important points of intervention in communicating NSAID risks to patients.