Exploring the potential for using drug indications to prevent look-alike and sound-alike drug errors.

Enrique Seoane-Vazquez; Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio; Saad Alqahtani; Gordon Schiff

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Exploring the potential for using drug indications to prevent look-alike and sound-alike drug errors.

September 6, 2017

Seoane-Vazquez E, Rodriguez-Monguio R, Alqahtani S, et al. Expert Opin Drug Saf. 2017;16(10):1103-1109.

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This experimental study found that including the approved indication along with the generic name reduced medication errors associated with look-alike and sound-alike drug pairs. The authors advocate for incorporating this information into medication prescribing.

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