What Label Design of Ampule for Injection, Do You Want?

摘要

Since "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Institute of Medicine publication, USA, 1999)" has published, the interest to accidents which happened in medical institutions has spread to the general public in Japan. And over half number of incident reports in medical institutions is related to medication. The factors which induce medication error are look-alike of the preparations, sound-alike of preparation's trade name, calculation error of dosage and so on. The healthcare professionals generally recognize the pharmaceutical preparations visually. So, to identify a preparation correctly, the design of the preparation label is important. In the small size preparations like the ampule and the vial for injection. the lots of information are required to write by regulation in the limited narrow space. As a result, the preparation's trade name on the label should be written in small font size, and the medical staff have a potential for the mistaking the preparations and the misunderstanding pharmacological action (therapeutic purpose).