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Citation Text: MEDMARX Data Report: A Report on the Relationship of Drug Names and Medication Errors in Response to the Institute of Medicine's Call to Action (2003-2006 Findings and Trends 2002-2006). Hicks RW, Becker SC, Cousins DD, eds. Rockville, MD: Center for the Advancement of Patient Safety, US Pharmacopeia; 2008.
Jul 27, 2010 · There are many similarly spelled drug names that may be difficult to differentiate on a handwritten prescription order, when selecting a typed name from a menu, or when removing a needed medication from a storage area. ePrescribing has the potential to eliminate much of the confusion because of handwritten orders of look-alike drug names, but it will not end these wrong-drug errors.
Nov 22, 2016 · This was because a non-alphabetical language is used in Taiwan. Second, we analysed all near-miss dispensing errors, and not only tall man lettered drug pairs. In addition to tall man lettering, several other measures were implemented for reducing errors, including enlargement of drug names and highlighting look-alike drugs on shelf labels.
- Hsiang-Yi Tseng, Chen-Fan Wen, Ya-Lun Lee, Kee-Ching Jeng, Pei-Liang Chen
- 2018
The soaring numbers of commonly used drugs with sound-alike and look-alike names have prompted the U.S ... 26,000 records submitted to the MEDMARX database from 2003 ...
Those published pairs included reciprocals of the same pairs (drug A for drug B, and drug B for drug A in any pair), meaning that there were actually 1775 discrete pairs of 2 drugs that exhibited either look-alike or sound-alike name confusion.
- William T. Basco, Sandra S. Garner, Myla Ebeling, Katherine D. Freeland, Thomas C. Hulsey, Kit Simps...
- 10.1016/j.acap.2015.06.014
- 2016
- 2016/03
Aug 1, 2003 · Drug name confusion or similar product packaging and labeling, also known as “look-alike, sound-alike” (LASA) medication error, is one of the most problematic causes of prescribing and ...
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Despite significant advances in medication safety, errors related to confusion between drug names are a cause of preventable adverse events and serious harm,1 and remain a patient safety priority.2 ,3 Although drug name confusion is recognised as a factor contributing to error, its minimisation or elimination is a prevailing challenge.4 ,5 In this issue, Schroeder et al 6 postulate that ...
