Status of medication literacy and its related factors among undergraduate students in Shanxi Province, China: A cross‐sectional study.
What is known and Objective: Medication safety problem has always been the focus of healthcare providers and public health community scholars. As the backbone of the future society, the mastery of college students' knowledge to use medicine will directly affect the level of medication literacy (ML)...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics Vol. 47; no. 8; pp. 1201 - 1212 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2022
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