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7 What Would It Take to Move Toward Prescription Use Instruction Standardization?
7 What Would It Take to Move Toward Prescription Use Instruction Standardization?
Pages 43-48
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There are about 500 standard-setting bodies in the United States. Three hundred or so are accredited by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI)
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, and it is likely the drug bill will move much higher. About half the total value of drugs sold worldwide are sold in the United States, and of those, generics account for about 10 percent of the total cost.
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People lose sight of the risks. This is of particular concern with specific drugs that have narrow therapeutic windows or with specific populations.
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LCHC paired with two senior citizen advocacy organizations, the Senior Action Network and the Grey Panthers of California, to investigate the need for standardizing prescription drug labels. Given that research results indicated that the standardized label was more comprehensible, LCHC and its partners worked for passage of legislation to create such a standard label.
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Initially, many pharmacy associations expressed concern. The LCHC and its partners worked with the associations and with the California State Board of Pharmacy, and in the end these organizations became supporters of the bill, working with the LCHC and its partners to rewrite language and develop a solution to standardizing prescription drug labels.
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