This is particularly timely and relevant, as the California State Board of Pharmacy recently passed regulations requiring pharmacies throughout the state to generate standardised Rx labels that incorporate health literacy principles; regulations specifically referenced using the UMS as a best practice.
The aim was to standardise prescription labelling and to provide a simple chart bringing all medicines in a patients' regimen together over 4 dosing periods through the day and which also explains the purpose of each medication to improve understanding.
Using bra cup size as a measurement of breast volume is less satisfactory, as cup-size labelling is not standardised (Ringberg et al, 2006).
To estimate the desirability for worldwide standardisation of COOL, the experts were invited in the third round to answer whether or not Codex should set detailed criteria for marking the country of origin to standardise worldwide origin labelling on the main ingredient.
This study preliminarily demonstrates the benefits of increasing health warning label size and moving towards standardised ("plain") waterpipe tobacco packs.
Given further and more widespread use of the triple-target approach, it may prove a valuable tool that can be standardised for multiple biological systems and dye-labels.
Healthcare quality registries (also labelled medical registries, clinical databases and the like) denote standardised and complete sets of systematically collected and entered individualised data concerning patient problems, and healthcare interventions and outcomes.
However, inhalation of amphotericin B has thus far been restricted to off-label use, due to a lack of effectiveness data and standardised methods for nebulised administration.
Our study was limited by having an uncontrolled open-label design and a small sample size, while the maintenance therapies were also not standardised.
Andrew Jefford, a British wine journalist, complains that big Australian labels such as Jacob's Creek and Nottage Hill are "becoming the equivalent of cans of lager; standardised, consistent, reliable, risk-free, challenge-free".
It should be standardised.
