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Medication Labeling Initiatives
Supported by the ACP Foundation
Funded Research
An evidence-based review of medication labels:
Prescription Bottle Labeling Project
Principal Investigators:
William Shrank, MD, MSHS, Harvard University School of Medicine
Paul Shekelle, MD, PhD, UCLA School of Medicine and RAND
This review focused on label content and format. The work allowed the Foundation to better understand whether labels need to be improved, what level of evidence is needed, and to begin to define the role of multiple stakeholders.
Publications from Evidence-Based Review
National Presentations
 2007
IOM Health Literacy Roundtable. Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less.
IOM Health Literacy Roundtable. Changing Prescription Medication Use Container Instructions to Improve Health Literacy and Medication Safety.
Wolf, MS. Health Literacy & Medication Safety- Can We Confuse Patients Less? A Presentation to the Food and Drug Administration.
2006
Shrank, WH. The Prescription Drug Label Project. American College of Physicians Foundation/ Institute of Medicine/Annual National Health Literacy Conference. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.
Wolf, MS. Can We Confuse Patients Less? An ACPF Medication Labeling Agenda and Call to Action. American College of Physicians Foundation/ Institute of Medicine/Annual National Health Literacy Conference. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. Key Findings
2005
Shrank, WH. The Evidence-Based Prescription Drug Label. American College of Physicians Foundation/ Institute of Medicine Annual National Health Literacy Conference. National Academy of Sciences. Key Findings.
White Paper
Improving Rx Drug Container Labeling: An Issue of Health Literacy and Medication Safety: A White Paper Commissioned by the ACP Foundation
This paper was presented at the IOM Health Literacy Roundtable meeting on October 12, 2007. White Paper. Slides from the White Paper presentation.
Recent Events
Sixth Annual American College of Physicians Foundation
National Health Communication Conference: Advances in Health Literacy
November 28, 2007
Co-Sponsored by the Institute of Medicine
Simplifying Medication Scheduling: Can We Confuse Patients Less?
Alastair J. Wood, MD, FACP
Managing Director Symphony Capital LLC
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