Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less, Workshop Summary.

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Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less, Workshop Summary.

June 4, 2008

Hernandez LM; for Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2008.

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Depicting how medication labels and instructions confuse patients, this report addresses ambulatory medication safety and offers recommendations on how to standardize pharmacy labels to help prevent errors.

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