Such look-alike and sound-alike medicines because of the similarity in their names create confusion while dispensing and administration/consumption of medicine. This may eventually cause varied degree of harm to the patient resulting from inadvertent consumption of an unintended drug. Objective: This ...
The role of typography in differentiating look-alike/sound-alike drug names. Until recently, when errors occurred in the course of caring for patients, blame was assigned to the healthcare professionals closest to the incident rather than examining the larger system and the actions that led up ...
Purpose: Many medication names have been identified as sound-alike or look-alike combinations. Sound-alike or look-alike medications may lead to potential medication errors. One of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for ...
Key words: Medications; Medications errors; Adverse drug events; Look-alike drugs; Sound-alike drugs Tall man lettering; Medication Errors Reporting Program; Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Citation: Ismail S and Taqi A. Medical errors related to look-alike and sound-alike drugs 展开 ...
The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals for 2005 require organizations to identify and, at a minimum, annually review a list of look-alike, sound-alike drugs and to proactively implement safety strategies to help prevent medication errors involving these drug combinations. Proactive assessment...
Chapter 18: Words That Sound Alike/Look Alike The English language has a large group of words that sound alike or look alike. Words like decent and descent look and sound similar, but they have very different meanings. Decent means suitable or proper while descent means going down, falling,...
Look-alike, sound-alike drug names. Due to the risk of medications errors from inadvertent interchange of drugs for which names look alike or sound alike, the Joint Commission on Accreditatio... DJ Hogan 被引量: 8发表: 2001年 Look-alike and Sound-alike Drug Brand Names: A Potential Risk...
Sound-alike or look-alike medications may lead to potential ... D Ahlstrom,D Pharm.,K Belongie,... 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Look alike/sound alike drugs: a literature review on causes and solutions The implementation of preventive measures of look-alike/sound-alike drugs incidents has given ...
■ Health care organizations should periodically review a list of look-alike, sound-alike medications prepared by national medication safety organizations and compare the list with medication inventory to determine action plans relating to ... Aorn,Inc - 《Aorn Journal》 被引量: 29发表: 2012年 Tal...
Look-alike, sound-alike drug names. Due to the risk of medications errors from inadvertent interchange of drugs for which names look alike or sound alike, the Joint Commission on Accreditatio... DJ Hogan 被引量: 8发表: 2001年 Look-alike and Sound-alike Drug Brand Names: A Potential Risk...