Health professionals, including a pharmacist, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) call for including the purpose of medications on prescription labels to inform patients and enhance safety, calling it the “sixth” patient right (N Engl J Med 2016 July 28. [Epub ahead of print]).
“Currently, even though there is a widespread commitment to sharing drug information with patients, the reason for a medication prescription is generally not recorded or shared when it is being