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A symbol or coloured connector marking how a medicine is to be given.
Also known as: Administration route mark, For oral use marking, Route warning label
Route of administration markings say how a medicine is to be given — by mouth, into a vein, into the spine, into the eye — and they exist because giving a medicine by the wrong route is among the most serious errors in medicine. Beyond the printed abbreviation, the safeguard is increasingly physical: connectors for different routes are made deliberately incompatible so that an oral syringe cannot be attached to an intravenous line at all.
States how a medicine is to be given, because administering by the wrong route is among the most serious errors in medicine and is not always recoverable.
Contexts: Medicine
Is increasingly backed by physical incompatibility rather than by a label alone: connectors for different routes are designed so that an oral syringe cannot be attached to an intravenous line, which removes the error rather than warning against it.
Contexts: Medicine
A short abbreviation or a small drawing of a syringe, a mouth or a dropper, printed inside a bordered box on a label.
Both are dosing information on a dispensed medicine.