title: [Patient's medicine cabinet composition study of 207 families in France].
abstract: France is the first country in Europe for medicines' consumption. It is not possible to imagine a house without a medicine cabinet. There are very few data on this subject. The aim of our work was to study the composition of families' cabinets. On the first six month 2010, an investigation questionnaire was distributed in pharmacy community located Pyrénées-Atlantiques area. Questionnaires were given to all the patients coming to the chemist's. On 207 questionnaires available, a medicines' cabinet hold 12.1 ± 12.1 specialities name in average, 19.8 ± 17.9 packing (most frequent: Classes V: miscelleanous and A medicines: digestive system and metabolism) and an average of 5.6 ± 7.5 expired packing (28.4% of the medicines stock). The present study highlights the important quantity of medicines found in the families' medicines cabinets. It underlines the important role of the pharmacist and family doctor for the patient's therapeutic education.
authors: Service de Pharmacologie Clinique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Toulouse, France.
authors: Hélène
authors: H
authors: Bordenave
authors: Fabien
authors: F
authors: Despas
authors: Agnès
authors: A
authors: Sommet
authors: Jean-Louis
authors: JL
authors: Montastruc
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D010595:Pharmacists; D010820:Physicians; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004366:Nonprescription Drugs