Homonymy of drugs: a cause of prescription and dispensing errors
Thouilly, R.; Le Jeunne, C.; Hugues, F.C.
Therapie 51(5): 565-567
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-5957 PMID: 9138398 Document Number: 456655
There have been recently a prescription error and a dispensing error in our department due to drug names which look or sound alike. Errors of this type have frequently been quoted in the Anglo-Saxon literature. The method of choosing a drug trade name is recalled, and a table of French drug names which can involve errors of prescription and dispensing errors is provided.