Prescription Drug Fact Boxes

Outcomes Group

Background about the drug facts box

Inside the Drug Facts Box

Drug facts box example

Lunesta drug facts box

Research about the drug facts box

Schwartz LM, Woloshin S, Welch HG. The Drug Facts Box: Providing Consumers with Simple Tabular Data on Drug Benefit and Harm. Med Decis Making, September 14, 2007; 27; 655.

Woloshin S, Schwartz LM. What's Needed on Prescription Drug Labels. The Boston Globe, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, page A23.

Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Welch HG. The Value Of Benefit Data In Direct-To-Consumer Drug Ads. Health Affairs, April 28, 2004; DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.W4.234.