AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



Explicit and Standardized Prescription Medicine Instructions.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2014.

Standardization has been embraced as a strategy to improve health literacy and to reduce patientmisunderstanding of medication instructions. This tool provides standard language that clarifies directions for patients regarding when they should take their medications.

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