Panel recommends standardizing prescription container labeling

To promote the establishment of universal standards for prescription medication labels -and to address the widespread problem of patient misinterpretation of medication instructions -an advisory panel formed by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) recently issued a set of recommendations to bring consistency to labeling on dispensed prescription packaging. The recommendations are patient-centered, and were developed following a call for such standards by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on the issue of health literacy. The recommendations were presented to the IOM Health Literacy Roundtable.

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