Standardizing medication labels : confusing patients less : workshop summary /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Health Literacy, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
Otros Autores: Hernandez, Lyla M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008.
Temas:
Drugs > Labeling > Standards.
Drug Labeling > standards
Drug Prescriptions > standards
Medication Errors > prevention & control
Safety Management > standards
Médicaments > Étiquetage > Normes.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Health literacy.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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