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Functional ability of patients to manage medication packaging
 — a survey of geriatric inpatients
Author(s)P A Atkin, T P Finnegan, S J Ogle, G M Shenfield
Journal titleAge and Ageing, vol 23, no 2, March 1994
Pagespp 113-116
KeywordsPhysical capacity ; Drugs.
AnnotationThis study measured the prevalence of difficulty experienced by elderly inpatients in opening and removing tablets from a range of common commercial medication packagings, and in breaking a bar-scored tablet in half. Many of the packagings impeded the access of elderly people to their medication.
Accession NumberCPA-940328020 A
ClassmarkBI: LLD

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