Patients discharged with a prescription for acetaminophen-containing narcotic analgesics do not receive appropriate written instructions.
Am J Emerg Med
; 21(1): 48-50, 2003 Jan.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12563581
ABSTRACT
To determine whether patients given prescriptions for acetaminophen-containing narcotic analgesics receive appropriate discharge instructions to reduce their intake of or stop taking other acetaminophen-containing products, we evaluated discharge instructions given by an urban, tertiary-care emergency department from September 1 to September 18, 2001 to find patients discharged while taking narcotic-analgesic compounds containing acetaminophen. We evaluated these discharge instructions to determine whether they included instructions to reduce or discontinue the use of acetaminophen compounds. Among the 1,505 discharge instructions evaluated, we found that 108 patients were discharged with a narcotic-analgesic combination product containing acetaminophen. Of these 108 patients, none of those given a prescription for such an acetaminophen-containing product was instructed to reduce or discontinue the use of other acetaminophen products. Emergency physicians, during the specified study period, did not explain to their patients the need to reduce the use of other acetaminophen-containing products when prescribing acetaminophen-containing medications. Further inquiry into this potentially dangerous activity is warranted.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
11_ODS3_cobertura_universal
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8_ODS3_consumo_sustancias_psicoactivas
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Alta do Paciente
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Prescrições de Medicamentos
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Redação
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Educação de Pacientes como Assunto
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Analgésicos não Narcóticos
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Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência
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Analgésicos Opioides
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Acetaminofen
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Emerg Med
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article