Sound-alike drug names produce risk of medication interchange errors.
Due to the risk of medications errors from inadvertent interchange of drugs for which names look alike or sound alike, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations now requires that accredited health care organizations develop and maintain programs to minimize these risks. This report lists drug names that can lead to such errors.
D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006236:Handwriting; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000145:classification; D017751:Safety Management; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations