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Respiratory Disease has increased incidence as a result of more industralization, air pollutions and it is representative one of which management demand closely patient education. Since 1997, we have conducted and counseled the asthma and COPD patients for out patient education. At this time, we evaluate current understanding of disease and compliance of them. We asked 30 ambulatory patients among those who had taken patient education and counseling at the Respiratory Clinic in Eulji General hospital between Jan. 20th and Mar. 17th, 1999. The survey showed that 85% of referred patients had benefited from the medication counseling. In addition, an evaluation focused on the patient´s usage of inhaler revealed that the counseling produce a dramatic improving in accuracy both MDI and DPI. This result indicates that patient education and counseling have a significant influence on the practice of pharmaceutical care for patient of respiratory clinics. The pharmacist´s activities shall be enlarged from now on to other various field more than filling prescriptions of which patient education will be an important one. Patient education and counseling is pharmacist´s important task to improve safety of medication, cost benefit effect, and so on which contribute to the better medical service. More effective approaches to satisfy this requirements need to be investigated.
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