Evaluating the potential severity of look-alike, sound-alike drug substitution errors in children.

William T Basco; Sandra S Garner; Myla Ebeling; Katherine D Freeland; Thomas C Hulsey; Kit Simpson

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Evaluating the potential severity of look-alike, sound-alike drug substitution errors in children.

March 23, 2016

Basco WT, Garner SS, Ebeling M, et al. Acad Pediatr. 2016;16(2):183-91.

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Look-alike, sound-alike drug names pose serious threats for potential medication errors. In this study, 38 pediatricians participated in a modified Delphi process to classify the clinical importance of more than 600 look-alike, sound-alike medication pairs that present risks to children.

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