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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jan 11;170(1):10.1001/archinternmed.2009.454. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.454

Table 3.

Attendance to and Correct Interpretation of Drug Warnings by Label Type.

Warning
Label
Attendance to Warning, % Correct Interpretation of Warning, %

Standard Simplified
Text
Simplified
Text+Icon
P Value Standard Simplified
Text
Simplified
Text+Icon
P Value
1 80 71 79 0.13 100 100 100 1.0
2 62 77 76 0.003 72 97 96 <0.001
3 61 74 74 0.01 66 81 86 0.001
4 70 67 83 0.005 97 98 98 0.90
5 73 75 80 0.33 85 85 89 0.54
6 66 70 81 0.01 83 82 84 0.91
7 85 80 81 0.38 89 98 92 0.02
8 70 71 78 0.17 73 93 94 <0.001
9 63 76 74 0.02 49 83 87 <0.001

See Table 2 for warnings for each label type.