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Day or date labels printed on a blister pack, one per dose.
Also known as: Calendar pack marking, Day marking, Blister day labels
A calendar blister marks each dose with a day or a date so that a patient can see at a glance whether today's has been taken. It is a compliance aid rather than a label, and it carries an assumption: the pack presumes a particular starting day, and a patient who begins on the wrong one will be out of step for the whole course. Where a course has phases — different doses in different weeks — the markings also encode the order the strips must be taken in.
Presumes a starting day, so a patient who begins on the wrong one is out of step for the whole course — a limitation the pack does not state and the pharmacist usually does.
Contexts: Medicine
Short day abbreviations or numerals printed in a row on foil, each aligned with a raised dome containing one tablet.
Both are markings on the dispensed object.