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How to connect medication management and black box labels
The "black-box" label-a recent focus area garnering more intense scrutiny among hospitalsóis designed to warn prescribers of potentially life-threatening complications associated with specific drugs. The warnings are meant to help medical professionals provide the maximum benefit to the patient by prescribing the drug while avoiding common risks and complications.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can require a pharmaceutical company to label a prescription medication with a black-box warningóthe strongest warning the FDA can require. The label essentially tells both the prescribing physician and the patient that the medication carries potentially life-threatening adverse effects.
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