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Record W2412106082

[Knowledge of patients about OTC drugs as a result of pharmacist-patients consultations].

2002· article· en· W2412106082 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicAnalytical Methods in Pharmaceuticals
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPharmacyPharmacistMedicineIgnoranceFamily medicineSelf-medicationQuarter (Canadian coin)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Knowledge of patients about oral single-component OTC preparations containing ibuprofen, bought for their own use, was evaluated in relation to the manner of the process of communication between the pharmacist (laboratory assistant)--patient during the supply at the pharmacy. The answers of respondents were processed separately for the group of those who bought the preparation for the first time and those who had already used it for self-medication. The knowledge of contraindications and undesirable effects (judged separately) was found to be higher than 50% in both groups of respondents. Nevertheless, the patients who use the preparation repeatedly state simultaneous ignorance of undesirable effects and contraindications only in 32.2%, in contrast to the new users (60.0%). The patients who know neither contraindications nor undesirable effects of the preparation which they buy nevertheless think that they have enough information so that their self-medication can be safe (88.9% of patients using the preparation repeatedly and 80.0% of new users). Approximately a quarter of respondents in both groups under evaluation state that during the supply in the pharmacy they were not given any piece of information. Patients are passive when buying an OTC preparation and nearly 40% of them do not use the opportunity to ask for pertinent information themselves. Nearly 85% of respondents from both groups consider information gained from the pharmacy to be sufficient. When supplying an OTC preparation, in 45% of cases pharmacists (laboratory assistants) do not inquire whether the patient have already used the preparation, or whether he or she knows anything about it. The standard of counselling on self-medication in the Czech Republic should thus become more effective.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.837
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it