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look-alike sound-alike drug name confusion: a standalone construct

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Pharmacy practice

medication errors caused by orthographic or phonetic similarity between drug names, modeled as a measurable risk factor.

In pharmacy practice, look-alike sound-alike drug name confusion refers to medication errors caused by orthographic or phonetic similarity between drug names, modeled as a measurable risk factor. This meaning comes from Lambert (1999) in Medical Care.[1]

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References

Lambert, B. L., Lin, S., Chang, K., & Gandhi, S. K. (1999). Similarity As a Risk Factor in Drug-Name Confusion Errors: The Look-Alike (Orthographic) and Sound-Alike (Phonetic) Model. Medical Care, 37(12), 1214-1225. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-199912000-00005

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