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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811808903321

Titolo

The Safe Use Initiative and health literacy : workshop summary / / Cori Vancheri, Rapporteur ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2010

ISBN

0-309-18498-3

1-282-94861-X

9786612948619

0-309-15932-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (91 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VancheriCori

Disciplina

362.1782

Soggetti

Medication errors

Health education

Patient education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 FDA Safe Use Initiative""; ""3 Over-the-Counter Products""; ""4 Initiatives to Advance Patient-Centered Drug Safety""; ""5 Identifying Activities Around Which to Build Partnerships for Patient-Centered Drug Safety""; ""6 How Can the Lessons of Health Literacy Be Used to Build Patient-Centered Outcomes for Safe Use?""; ""References""; ""Appendix A: Acronyms""; ""Appendix B: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix C: Workshop Speaker Biosketches""

Sommario/riassunto

"Every year at least 1.5 million people suffer adverse effects from medication. These problems occur because people misunderstand labels, are unaware of drug interactions, or otherwise use medication improperly. The Food and Drug Administration's Safe Use Initiative seeks to identify preventable medication risks and develop solutions to them. The IOM held a workshop to discuss the FDA's Safe Use Initiative and other efforts to improve drug labeling and safety."--