Communication About Medicines
A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 362
Special Issue Editors
Interests: professional ethics and communication; the role of pharmacists in pharmacy practice and clinical pharmacy; patient perspectives on medicine use; pharmaceutical policy
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Interests: communication between patients and health care professionals; patient-centered care; cognitive services; patient perspectives on medicine use
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Communication about medicines is an essential part of ensuring a rational use of medicines across healthcare sectors and in patients. Knowledge about why and how to use medicines, and motivation to do so, in a rational manner helps individual patients, but also public health.
In this Special Issue, we welcome all sorts of contributions that deal with communication about medicines. Especially interesting are contributions that help us to understand and overcome barriers and that lead to better use of medicine from an individual, group or society perspective. On an individual level, investigating how communication can become more patient-centered is of special interest.
A couple of years ago, we were guest editors for a Special Issue in Pharmacy on communication in pharmacy practice. The articles published in that issue came from many parts of the world and covered different perspectives of communication in pharmacy practice. We concluded then that research plays an important part in awareness of, and learning about communication in pharmacy practice, but also that more research is needed. This Special Issue can be seen as an extension of the one mentioned above, and we hope to get as many interesting contributions as at that time.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Susanne Kaae
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Medicine communication
- Patient-centered care
- Pharmaceutical care
- Communication theories and models
- Communication skills
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