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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782896303321

Titolo

Standardizing medication labels : confusing patients less : workshop summary / / Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : National Academies Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-309-17832-0

1-281-30025-X

9786611300258

0-309-11530-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 100 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

HernandezLyla M

Disciplina

615.1

Soggetti

Drugs - Labeling - Standards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Presentations""; ""3 Federal Agency Reaction to Prescription Use Instruction Standardization""; ""4 Reaction from the Pharmacy Field to Prescription Use Instruction Standardization""; ""5 Other Stakeholder Reaction to Prescription Use Instruction Standardization: Physicians and Patients""; ""6 Other Stakeholder Reaction to Prescription Use Instruction Standardization: Educators of Pharmacists and Physicians""; ""7 What Would It Take to Move Toward Prescription Use Instruction Standardization?""; ""8 Closing Remarks""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix B: Biosketches of the Workshop Speakers""; ""Appendix C: ACP White Paper""

Sommario/riassunto

"Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over a million adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits as well as hospitalizations and, in some cases, death. As a patient's most tangible source of information about what drug has been prescribed and how that drug is to be taken, the label on a container of prescription medication is a crucial line of



defense against such medication safety problems, yet almost half of all patients misunderstand label instructions about how to take their medicines. Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less is the summary of a workshop, held in Washington, D.C. on October 12, 2007, that was organized to examine what is known about how medication container labeling affects patient safety and to discuss approaches to addressing identified problems."--Publisher.