Look-alike and sound-alike medicines: risks and ‘solutions’

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Emmerton, Lynne, Rizk, M.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Springer Science + Business Media 2012
Subjects:	Dispensing – Drugs – Errors – Human factors – Look-alike sound-alike – Medicines – Nomenclature – Packaging – Risks
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29816

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