title: [Homonymy of drugs: a cause of prescription and dispensing errors].
abstract: There have been recently a prescription error and a dispensing error in our department due to drug names which look or sound alike. Errors of this type have frequently been quoted in the Anglo-Saxon literature. The method of choosing a drug trade name is recalled, and a table of French drug names which can involve errors of prescription and dispensing errors is provided.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne II, Hôpital Laennec, Paris.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thouilly
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Jeunne
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Hugues
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D009626:Terminology as Topic