Medication Errors Associated with Look-alike/Sound-alike Drugs: A Brief Review.
Loading...
Date
2015-05
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
The existence of confusing drug names is one of the most common causes of medication
errors. There are many types of medication errors: wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong route of
administration, wrong patient etc. Misreading medication names that look similar is a
common mistake. These look-alike medication names may also sound alike and can lead to
errors associated with verbal prescriptions. Similar sounding drugs may produce confusion
and may lead to unintended interchange of drugs causing harm to patients or even patient
death. The main aim of the study was to evaluate medication errors related to look alikesound
alike drug names and to find out the strategies to prevent these medication errors.
Description
Keywords
Look-alike, Sound-alike, FDA, Pharmaceutical companies
Citation
Rahman Zaida, Parvin Rukhsana. Medication Errors Associated with Look-alike/Sound-alike Drugs: A Brief Review. Journal of Enam Medical College. 2015 May; 5(2): 110-117.