The article focuses on drugs that sound similar which are reported to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Medication Errors Reporting Program from July-September 2010. It cites the confusion in the prescription of Valcyte and Valtrex which also have similar sounding generic names. It relates ...
Look-alikeMedication errorPatient safetySound-alikeBackground: ALMEX and ALMOX; ASOM and AZOM; TRIAD, TRIAD P and TRIAD PF; folic acid and folinic acid; Vincristine and Vinblastine. Such look-alike and sound-alike medicines because of the similarity in their names create confusion while ...
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 rise to a fundamental rule in Clinical Risk Management, but t... N Ciociano,L Bagnasco - 《International Journal of Clinical Pha...
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...
1. Medication safety: look-alike/sound-alike drugs in home care. [J] . Friedman MM Home healthcare nurse. . 2005,第4期 机译:药物安全性:家庭护理中外观相似/听起来相似的药物。 2. Medication Errors Associated with Look-alike/Sound-alike Drugs: A Brief Review [J] . Zaida Rahman, Rukhsa...
Improving systems should help to reduce errors due to look-alike and sound-alike drug names Confusion due to similar looking or sounding drug names is a common problem that can result in potentially serious medication errors. Regulatory agencies a... None - 《Drugs & Therapy Perspectives》 被引...
Sound-Alike Look-Alike drugs (SALADs) are pairs of medicines that can be potentially confused with each other because of similar-sounding or similar-looking medication names or similar packaging. e.g. Epanutin & Epilim. This survey illustrates some SALAD pairs that have caused problems in Irelan...
Look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) drugs in India Poor drug regulation in India is not a recent problem. The Indian drug market is full of look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) drugs which have not yet caught the... M Neelakantan,P Sharma,A Kulkarni - The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia...
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 A prospective study of medication errors arising out of look-al...
Passive in-home health and wellness monitoring: overview, value and examples. Modern sensor and communication technology, coupled with advances in data analysis and artificial intelligence techniques, is causing a paradigm shift in r... M Alwan - International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Me...