Report for: Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over-the-counter medications

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Title	Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over-the-counter medications
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2013
DOI	10.1002/14651858.cd008416.pub2
Pubmed ID	23633355
Authors	Sabina Ciciriello, Renea V Johnston, Richard H Osborne, Ian Wicks, Tanya deKroo, Rosemary Clerehan, Clare O'Neill, Rachelle Buchbinder
Abstract	Health consumers increasingly want access to accurate, evidence-based information about their medications. Currently, education about medications (that is, information that is designed to achieve health or illness related learning) is provided predominantly via spoken communication between the health provider and consumer, sometimes supplemented with written materials. There is evidence, however, that current educational methods are not meeting consumer needs. Multimedia educational programs offer many potential advantages over traditional forms of education delivery.

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	4	21%
Canada	1	5%
India	1	5%
Greece	1	5%
Colombia	1	5%
Germany	1	5%
Spain	1	5%
Netherlands	1	5%
Finland	1	5%
Other	2	11%
Unknown	5	26%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	14	74%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	3	16%
Scientists	2	11%

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Iceland	2	<1%
Unknown	284	99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	7	2%
Student > Master	5	2%
Student > Doctoral Student	3	1%
Researcher	3	1%
Student > Bachelor	3	1%
Other	6	2%
Unknown	259	91%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	9	3%
Nursing and Health Professions	6	2%
Unspecified	3	1%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	2	<1%
Computer Science	2	<1%
Other	5	2%
Unknown	259	91%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 April 2017.

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#696,244

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#2,183

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#9,418

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#21

of 116 outputs

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Multimedia educational interventions for consumers about prescribed and over-the-counter medications

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