Look-alike and sound-alike medicines: risks and ‘solutions’
‘Look-alike, sound-alike’ medicines are associated with dispensing errors. This commentary aims to fuel discussion surrounding how drug name nomenclature and similar packaging between medicines can lead to selection errors, the need for enhanced approval systems for medicine names and packaging, and...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Springer Science + Business Media
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29816 |