MEPS Pictograms

Project run by the Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section (MEPS) of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) to help health professionals communicating medication instructions to people that they have no language in common with and / or who may be illiterate.

Reference:
, et. Al. Team-based care approach to cholesterol management in diabetes mellitus: two-year cluster randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Sep 12;171(16):1480-6.

“When pharmacists counsel patients on their cholesterol medication along with healthy lifestyles, patients decrease their 'bad' cholesterol by 26% more than when pharmacists aren't involved.”