What are people using for medication information handouts to give to patients? My previous job had handouts built into the EMR, but a new place I'm working doesn't. Is there anything people like better then uptodate?
Patient Medication Handouts
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I'm in Australia here, but I thought maybe some of you would like to see what we routinely give out with all medications (in an inpatient setting there may be a different document, but otherwise this is it). We give out a copy of the consumer medication information for any medication from lamotrigine to metformin to amoxycillin. Here's the info for olanzapine. My organisation also uses SANE handouts quite a bit (i.e. this one).
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I looked up sertraline but the consumer information is the same as the pi and 20 pages long. What do you give patients?
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See if your EMR has it. I've been dinged by revenue cycle who literally whined at me for not printing up the pages to meet MU2.
Which begs the question, why do they need the same technical garbage from me and the pharmacy?
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Odd. There's a five page handout, but maybe it's just a pain to find through the general search.
Most people are given handouts about the class of medication generally - the handouts are typically hospital or organisation specific, but as an example they're fairly similar to this (but, using that example, specific only to what the person has been prescribed i.e. only about SSRIs). Hopefully the person prescribing has done adequate education about the medication and there isn't a great need for a lengthy CMI or PI, but our pharmacists are obliged to at least offer the CMI and many hand it out routinely.
