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Reducing Medication Errors from Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs

Reducing Medication Errors from Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs Medication safety doesn’t only depend on the right drug being prescribed. It also depends on the right drug being heard, read, entered, dispensed, and administered. That may sound obvious, but history tells us a different story. Medication name confusion has contributed to safety concerns significant enough to prompt…