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.
"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 wha...
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The workshop agenda
- Presentations
- Drug safety in ambulatory care
- The role of health literacy in patient care
- The American College of Physicians Foundation white paper on drug labeling: findings
- Simplification of drug dosing times: can we confuse patients less?
- Federal agency reaction to prescription use instruction standardization
- Reaction from the pharmacy field to prescription drug use instruction standardization
- Other stakeholder reaction to prescription use instruction standardization: physicians and patients
- Other stakeholder reaction to prescription use instruction standardization: educators of pharmacists and physicians
- What would it take to move toward prescription use instruction standardization?
- Closing remarks.