Know the Label: FDA-Approved
Electronic Label Updates and Free CME
Physicians can now stay up-to-date with the most frequently updated FDA prescribing information (label changes) through a new online partnership with the FDA, the PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference) and The Doctors Company. Clinically relevant changes to existing prescription labels affect over 25 percent of drugs yearly. Those changes are important to protecting your practice and to patient safety. Nationally, nearly 30 percent of medical malpractice suits involve pharmaceuticals, and the FDA-approved labeling is often the standard to which physicians are held in these suits.
The new PDR Network updates physicians on all of the changes electronically, and allows them, immediately after review, to earn CME (Continuing Medical Education) credits at no charge. The service is delivered to health care providers via the PDR Network Web site, The Doctors Company (provider of the CME credits), and via electronic health records systems.
