International drug name confusion.

Terri L Levien

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International drug name confusion.

August 16, 2006

Levien TL. Hosp Pharm. 2010;41(7):697-710.

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The author discusses the potential for medication errors with drugs using international brand names and provides tables of both identical and similar brand names that contain different active ingredients.

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