Literature Review on the Utilization of Medication Notebooks

Abstract

Objective: A medication notebook is developed in order to unitedly manage medication information of patients and is used by writing medication information such as history of ethical drugs, over-the-counter drugs and health foods, anamnesis, history of adverse events and allergy.  Adverse events, interaction and duplication of drugs can be prevented by showing a medication notebook to doctors and pharmacists.
Data Sources·Study Selection·Data Extraction: In this article, we reviewed literatures regarding preceding studies on the utilization of medication notebooks comprehensively.
Results·Conclusion: In our review, we could comprehend literature on medication notebooks systematically and could summarize a lot of evidences that confirm the usefulness of medication notebooks.  We need to produce further evidences on medication notebooks to spread medication notebooks.