Article: Watch out for drug names that look and sound alike.(Front)

Article: Pharmacy project may reduce drug name confusion.
Biotech Week;  September 17, 2003 ;     534 words ......retrieval process for drug names to minimize the incidence...are attributable to drug names that look or sound alike. Lambert, who has completed a study on drug names that look alike, is...companies avoid adding new drug names to the market that...will ...

Article: University of Illinois at Chicago Pharmacy Project May Reduce Drug Name Confusion.
AScribe Medicine News Service;  August 25, 2003 ;     577 words ......retrieval process for drug names to minimize the incidence...are attributable to drug names that look or sound alike. Lambert, who has completed a study on drug names that look alike, is...companies avoid adding new drug names to the market that...will ...

Article: Deadly drug-name confusion avoidable, researcher says
Drug Topics;  January 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Fosamax. Mixing up similar drug names is no isolated problem. Grabbing the wrong look-alike, sound-alike drug happens so often that...eliminated by screening potential drug names for similarities. The more...of phonologically similar (sound-alike) names. "This is ...

Article: USA: Look/sound-alike drugs lead to medical errors.
Pharma Marketletter;  February 11, 2008 ;     425 words ......involved in errors linked to drug names that either look or sound alike. According to findings in...resulting from look-alike/sound-alike errors is actually understated...of names that look and/or sound alike, which was nearly double...

Article: U.S. Pharmacopeia 8th Annual MEDMARX(R) Report Indicates Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Drugs Lead to Thousands of Medication Errors Nationwide.
PR Newswire;  January 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ......errors linked to drug names that look alike or sound alike. According to findings...look-alike and/or sound-alike drug names by providing additional...medication errors due to drug names that look or sound...list of look-alike/sound-alike ...

Article: Researchers get $1.6 million NIH grant to address similar-sounding drug names.
Biotech Week;  June 25, 2003 ;     617 words ......confusing look-alike and sound-alike names account for one-fourth...at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program...used to screen proposed drug names against databases of existing drug names. For several years, pharmacists...

Article: Confusing drug names can lead to medication errors
AP Online;  November 24, 1998 ;     688 words ......needed an injection of Narcan but instead got the drug Norcuron and went into cardiac arrest. More than 1,000 U.S. drugs have names that either look or sound so much alike that doctors, nurses and pharmacists...computer program is under trial use by the Food and Drug Administration. An estimated 1.3 ...

Article: MoH to draft list of generic drug names to standardize prescriptions.
China Business News;  July 28, 2006 ;     250 words ...MoH to draft list of generic drug names to standardize prescriptions Shanghai...Administration (SFDA) is drafting a list generic drug names to standardize China's drug prescription...would make prescriptions use generic drug names to cut chaotic competition in the drug...

Article: Dictionary of drug names available.(Products)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
Pediatric News;  August 1, 2005 ;     70 words ......Pharmacopeia Dictionary of Adopted Names and International Drug Names is available. This 41st edition contains nationally and internationally...recognized names for all known drugs, including over 4,000 brand drug names. The dictionary is available in book form for $299 or in a...

Article: 2004 USP Dictionary of USAN and International Drug Names is available.(Industry News)
Pharmaceutical Processing;  June 1, 2004 ;     148 words ......Dictionary of USAN and International Drug Names (USP Dictionary), which contains nationally...the official resource for established drug names under U.S. law enforced by the U.S. Food...978 modified entries; 112 new generic drug names (with 54 new USAN listings); and approximately...

Article: C program finds words that sound alike. (design ideas: volume 2, number 15A)
EDN;  July 21, 1988 ;     304 words ...C program finds words that sound alike The C program in Table 1 implements...algorithm (Ref 1), which finds words that sound alike. By assigning similar-sounding words...other six groups contain letters that sound alike. Because the sound of a particular vowel...

Article: FDA to post pre-approved drug names.(Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
Medical Marketing & Media;  June 1, 2001 ;     123 words ...* Because more new drug names are looking and sounding similar to already-approved products, the FDA has decided to begin posting pre-approved drug names that are in the review pipeline, the associate director of the agency's Office of Post-Marketing...

Article: Combating Medication Errors.(similar drug names and labeling may lead to confusion)(Brief Article)
Chain Drug Review;  August 27, 2001 ;     580 words ......concerning the dangers of sound-alike and look-alike drug names, tens of thousands of Americans...analysts say that similar drug names (either written or spoken...handwriting, incomplete knowledge of drug names, newly available products...

Article: Sound-alike drug names cause errors
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 23, 2001 ;     629 words ......has released an updated list with hundreds of confusing drug names and more than 750 drugs that have been reported to its errors...other problems, according to the organization. Reports of sound-alike names have prompted some manufacturers to change the name of certain medications. For details, ...