Look-Alike Drugs: Avoiding Potential Medical Errors

Gangakhedkar, Gauri R; Waghalkar, Pallavi; Shetty, Anita; Dalvi, Amit M

doi:10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_331_18

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“…[ 3 ] Gangakhedkar believes that medication errors are prevalent in therapeutic settings. [ 4 ] Medication errors, urinary catheter-associated infections, injuries caused by falling, and stagnancy are the most important causes of injury to patients in hospitals. [ 5 ] According to various studies, about one-third of medicine complications are due to MEs.…”

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A systematic literature review of LASA error interventions

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The aim of this systematic review was to explore and evaluate the efficacy of interventions to reduce the prevalence of look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medication name errors. Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature, searching PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus and Web of Science up to December 2016, and reran the search in February 2020 for later results. We included studies of interventions to reduce LASA errors and included randomized controlled trials, controlled before-and-after studies, and interrupted time series. Details were registered in Prospero (ID: CRD42016048198). Results: We identified six studies that fulfilled our inclusion criteria. All were conducted in laboratories. Given the diversity in the included studies, we did not conduct a meta-analysis and instead report the findings narratively. The only intervention explored in RCTs was capitalization of selected letters ("Tall Man"), for which we found limited efficacy and no consensus. Conclusions: Tall Man lettering is a marginally effective intervention to reduce LASA errors, with a number of caveats. We suggest that Tall Man gives rise to a "quasi-placebo effect", whereby a user derives more benefit from Tall Man lettering if they are aware of its purpose.

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Look-Alike Drugs: Avoiding Potential Medical Errors

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The prevalence of medication errors among nursing students: A systematic and meta-analysis study

The prevalence of medication errors among nursing students: A systematic and meta-analysis study

A systematic literature review of LASA error interventions

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