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look-alike sound-alike medications: a standalone construct

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look-alike sound-alikemedications1 CONSTRUCTLook-alike sound-alikeLAMBERT · PATIENT SAFETY

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Patient safety

medicines whose names look or sound similar, so that orthographic and phonetic similarity raises the risk of confusion errors.

In patient safety, look-alike sound-alike medications refers to medicines whose names look or sound similar, so that orthographic and phonetic similarity raises the risk of confusion errors. This meaning comes from Lambert (1999) in Medical Care.[1]

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References

  1. 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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