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ISMP updates its list of drug name pairs with Tall man letters.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 18, 2010;15:1-3.

This article reports results of a national survey on how "tall man" lettering has clarified high-consequence drug name confusion and includes a list of medication name pairs in such lettering.

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