Medication errors resulting from confusion between risperidone (Risperdal) and ropinirole (Requip).
Medication errors resulting from confusion between risperidone (Risperdal) and ropinirole (Requip). MedWatch Safety Alert, FDA Drug Safety Communication. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; June 13, 2011.
This notice raises awareness of a two look-alike/sound-alike drugs, one an antipsychotic medication and the other a dopamine agonist.