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Preventing medication errors by using Tall Man lettering.
- Source :
- Medical Journal of Australia; 11/72011, Vol. 195 Issue 9, p492-492, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The article focuses on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care's (ACSQHC) national Tall Man lettering project that aims to prevent medication errors. Tall Man lettering utilizes selective capitalisation to aid differentiate, and thus reduce confusion, between similar-looking drug names like Dilaudid and Dilantin. The project considered 250 name pairs utilizing a risk matrix based on the likelihood of confusion and the potential severity of the results of any confusion.
- Subjects :
- MEDICATION errors
MEDICAL errors
DRUGS
MEDICAL care
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0025729X
- Volume :
- 195
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Medical Journal of Australia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 67400785
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5694/mja11.s1107