1. Étude prospective en pharmacie du bon usage et de la connaissance du paracétamol pris en automédication
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Nadine Petitpain, Pierre Gillet, Melissa Yelehe-Okouma, Paolo Di Patrizio, C. Latarche, Julien Scala-Bertola, and Anne-Elise Severin
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Package insert ,business.industry ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Pharmacist ,Pharmacy ,Drug overdose ,medicine.disease ,030226 pharmacology & pharmacy ,3. Good health ,Surgery ,Acetaminophen ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Family medicine ,medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Observational study ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,Prospective cohort study ,Self-medication ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Acetaminophen (paracetamol), the highest over-the-counter (OTC) selling drug in France, is also the first cause of acute hepatic failure. We aimed to assess the good use and the knowledge of acetaminophen in a setting of urban self-medicated patients. We conducted a prospective observational study in randomly selected community pharmacies of Metz (France) agglomeration. Patients coming to buy OTC acetaminophen for themselves or their family had to answer to an anonymous autoquestionnaire. Responses were individually and concomitantly analyzed through 3 scores: good use, knowledge and overdosage. Twenty-four community pharmacies participated and 302 patients were interviewed by mean of a dedicated questionnaire. Most of patients (84.4%) could be considered as "good users" and independent factors of good use were (i) a good knowledge of acetaminophen (OR=5.3; P
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- 2016
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