Background: Older persons following a prolonged complex drug regimen often make mistakes when taking their medication. Currently, the widespread use of tablets and smartphones has encouraged the development of applications to support self-management of medication.
Objective: The aim of this study was to design, develop and assess an app that transforms medication-associated ean-13 (barcodes) and Quick Response codes (QR) into verbal instructions, to enable safer use of medication by the elderly patients taking multiple medications.
Methods: Meetings were held in which participated a total of 61 patients.
Results: The results showed that patients appreciated the application and found it useful for safer use of medicines.
Conclusions: The study results support the use of such technology to increase patient safety taking multiple medications safety.
Keywords: Automatic data processing; Cell phone; Information storage and retrieval/methods; Patient safety; Software design.
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