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5 Other Stakeholder Reaction to Prescription Use Instruction Standardization: Physicians and Patients
Pages 31-38

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From page 31...
... While there may be disagreements with some portions of the ACP Foundation white paper, the American Medical Association (AMA) supports the exploration of a standard medication label format.
From page 32...
... The AMA supports efforts aimed at improving patient understanding and will work with others to accomplish this. In response to a question from the audience, Dolan agreed that there should be a convening organization -- perhaps the National Patient Safety Foundation, the IOM, or the AMA -- to bring together interested stakeholders.
From page 33...
... The NCPIE has been involved in attempting to stimulate quality improvements in written drug information, both in the clinical content and the design layout and readability of the consumer medical information sheets. Furthermore, it has convened
From page 34...
... Addressing the issue of drug label standardization, the United States Pharmacopeia might be a very good place to move this initiative forward. It has a committee on safe medication use and is involved with the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP)
From page 35...
... Research suggests that patients who do not speak English well have poor knowledge of medication and dosing instructions as well as significantly greater problems with medication adherence and that providing oral and written medication information in their language is linked to improved health outcomes. The New York Academy of Medicine conducted a random sample telephone survey of 200 pharmacies.
From page 36...
... National Health Law Program Of the more than 21 million people in the United States who are l ­ imited English proficient (LEP) , slightly over 2 million are ­ individuals over age 65.
From page 37...
... Therefore, clinicians treating Medicare, Medicaid, and state children's health insurance program patients have an affirmative expectation to provide language services to meet the needs of their LEP patients. Having a standard medication label in place eases the ability to translate these labels and therefore will be of great assistance to clinicians and pharmacists in meeting their existing obligations under Title VI.
From page 38...
... Wu responded that the IOM report on preventing medication errors (2007) was quite critical about the use of samples because samples provide many opportunities for bypassing safety checks that otherwise exist.


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