reliable patient care depends upon clearly labeled medicines and comprehensive documentation of their administration. the pharmacomb product family helps ensure precise, efficient documentation of medications in patient records, and simplifies routine medical care in practices and hospitals. pharmacomb labels include one or more detachable parts that are printed with important information and, if necessary, also allow the physician or nurse to add additional handwritten data. schreiner medipharm provides diverse solutions that can be tailored to nearly any specific application.for a highly potent analgesic filled in small plastic containers and drawn using a pipette, a pharmaceutical customer needed a label with a particularly large number of detachable parts. the pharmacomb label developed for this project consists of a sophisticated twolayered construction that offers enough space for product information and ten consecutivelynumbered label parts. in addition, the detachable parts contain fields where the date and administered dosage can be manually entered.the label is wrapped around the container and is easy for the user to open and reseal again. convenient starter tabs simplify the handling of both layers and also make it easier to detach the label parts, even when wearing gloves. physicians and nurses can place the individual adhesive labels in patient records. &ldquothis facilitates quick and safe documentation and guarantees reliable tracking of the medication. in addition, the danger of possible overmedication is minimized&ldquo, ann l. merchant, president of schreiner medipharm, summarizes the benefits of the newly designed pharmacomb label.
