著者

名取 伸行 花輪 和己 鈴木 正彦 花輪 剛久 小口 敏夫

出版者

一般社団法人日本医療薬学会

雑誌

医療薬学 (ISSN:1346342X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, no.3, pp.289-296, 2008 (Released:2009-09-04)

参考文献数

6

被引用文献数

8 3

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A questionnaire survey of inpatients of widely varying ages was conducted to investigate the ease of taking internal medicines and desired dosage forms.A similar questionnaire survey of nurses and pharmacists working in a university hospital was also conducted to compare awareness of dosage forms by profession.The results of this survey clearly demonstrated the difference in awareness of patient preference regarding internal medicines among pediatric nurses,nurses working at other hospital wards,and pharmacists.This discrepancy seemed to reflect the difference in awareness of different health care workers concerning impairment of deglutition capability with aging.Awareness of patients' desired dosage forms also varied between pharmacists and nurses,which could be due to the difference in knowledge of pharmaceutics between these 2 professions.Based on the results of this study,it was felt that pharmacists should provide medication instruction to individual patients and provide pharmaceutical information to nurses,and that information sharing is important to ensuring that proper pharmaceutical care is conducted in the hospital.