Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less, Workshop Summary.
Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less, Workshop Summary. Hernandez LM; for Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2008.
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.