Communicating Clearly About Medicines: Proceedings of a Workshop. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Communicating Clearly About Medicines: Proceedings of a Workshop. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Book/Report
 
• Published September 2017

Communicating Clearly About Medicines: Proceedings of a Workshop.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press: 2017. ISBN: 9780309461856.

Patient health literacy is a known challenge in health care safety. This publication reports on results of a multidisciplinary workshop that explored health literacy improvement strategies and tools to enhance the clarity of labels, patient instructions, and decision aids to support safe medication use.

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