title: Improving drug labeling and counseling for limited English proficient adults.
abstract: Language barriers between patients and providers adversely affect quality of care and a patient's ability to obtain, understand, and act on health information. Health care organizations are mandated by law to provide language concordant services. While health systems have taken steps to promote language access, minimal effort has been made to improve pharmacy practice. This is problematic, as patient misunderstanding of prescription drug instructions is a root cause of many adverse drug events occurring annually in outpatient settings. Enhanced, language concordant prescription labeling and counseling is needed to promote safe use of prescription medications among limited English proficient patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. stacy-bailey@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Stacy Cooper
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Nisha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sleath
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gumusoglu
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003376:Counseling; D004348:Drug Labeling; D005260:Female; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009518:New York; D010594:Pharmacies; D055553:Prescription Drugs
chemical_list: D055553:Prescription Drugs