Study Finds Doing Mock Injections Helps Patients Self-administer Drugs, Biologics Without Mistakes

Two recent surveys covered by FierceDrugDelivery have shown that the vast majority of patients don’t use their drug delivery devices properly.

The most recent found that only 16% of patients used an autoinjection device properly. Mistakes included not holding the device in place for 10 seconds after releasing the drug, not placing the needle on the thigh or not depressing the device hard enough to trigger release of the drug. What should be done to fix the problem? Read More >