Medicine labels incorporating pictograms: do they influence understanding and adherence?
The objective was to determine the influence of medicine labels incorporating pictograms on the understanding of instructions and on adherence. Eighty-seven Xhosa participants attending an outpatient clinic who had been prescribed a short course of antibiotics were randomly allocated to either a con...
Main Authors: | Dowse, R, Ehlers, M |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006051 |
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