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What is printed on a medicine and what it is safe to conclude from it. The family is written to two rules: where a marking is discouraged by current safety guidance the record says so, because recording an error-prone abbreviation without that is closer to endorsement than to documentation; and where acting on a mark is a job for a pharmacist — identifying a loose tablet, judging a heat-exposed product — the record describes the mark and refers the reader on.
Latin abbreviations giving the dosing instructions on a prescription.
Letters and numbers pressed into a tablet, identifying the product.
A letters-and-numbers marking showing a medicine's controlled-drug schedule.
A child-and-hand or crossed-child mark warning against accessible storage.
A thermometer or snowflake marking a medicine's required storage conditions.
An hourglass or EXP mark giving the date after which a product should not be used.
Day or date labels printed on a blister pack, one per dose.
A symbol or coloured connector marking how a medicine is to be given.
A capital letter R with a stroke across its leg, heading a prescription.