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Intern Med J
; 47(3): 328-332, 2017 Mar.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28260252
RESUMO
Approximately 40% of patients are non-adherent to their medications. A prospective study of 80 patients evaluated the effectiveness of medical student-led pre-discharge medication education sessions. A significantly greater proportion of patients in the intervention group were adherent to their regular medications at 1 month compared with the control group (76.3% compared to 60.3%, P = 0.037). Medical student-led patient education significantly improved medication adherence rates.