The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) is a national association representing community health organizations dedicated to promoting advocacy, collaboration and leadership that improves the health status and access of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (AA&NHOPI) within the United States, its territories and freely associated states, primarily through our member community health centers.
November 5, 2015
MORRISVILLE, NC / ACCESSWIRE / November 5, 2015 / Polyglot Systems announced today that a pilot study conducted at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), using the company's Meducation(R) solution, has demonstrated significant improvement in patients' 30-day hospital readmission rates.
Meducation creates simplified medication instructions at lower reading levels, in more than 20 languages, with larger font sizes, pictograms and videos, to make it easier for patients to understand how to take their medications. Meducation is a cloud-based software application which allows for easy integration with hospital or pharmacy systems.
Objective To evaluate the efficacy of a pictogram-based health literacy intervention to decrease liquid medication administration errors by caregivers of young children.
Design Randomized controlled trial.
Setting Urban public hospital pediatric emergency department.
Participants Parents and caregivers (N = 245) of children aged 30 days to 8 years who were prescribed liquid medications (daily dose or “as needed”).
Intervention Medication counseling using plain language, pictogram-based medication instruction sheets. Control subjects received standard medication counseling.
Outcome Measures Medication knowledge and practice, dosing accuracy, and adherence.
