Provision of Bilingual Dispensing Labels to Non-Native English Speakers: An Exploratory Study

• Published in: Pharmacy Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 32
• Main Authors: Herrera, Helena, Alsaif, Murtada, Khan, Ghalib, Barnes, Nicola, Rutter, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25.03.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: bilingual labels; Bilingualism; Communication; community pharmacy; Consent; Drug stores; Government archives; health literacy; Labeling; Language; language proficiency; medicine related adherence; Packaging; Patient admissions; Patient safety; Prescription drugs; Questionnaires; service implementation; Software; Translations; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; service implementation; community pharmacy; health literacy; language proficiency; bilingual labels; medicine related adherence

Patients with limited English proficiency living in the U.K. receive prescribed medication labels in English. These patients are at risk of worse health outcomes compared with the general population. This article describes a service evaluation of the use of bilingual dispensing labels to facilitate...