Similarity of drug names and medication-dispensing errors

• In: Posters: Hospital Pharmacy Section
• At: Bangkok (Thailand) (2014)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS080
• By: TSENG, Hsiang-Yi (Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Pharmacy, Taichung, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Wen, Chen-Fan (Medical Research Department of Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  Lee, Ya-Lun (Taichung County Pharmacist Association, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  Chen, Pei-Liang (Pharmacy Department of Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Background
  [quotright]Dispensing the wrong medicine[quotrightB]was the major type of the dispensing errors besides [quotright]dispensing the wrong quantity[quotrightB]in our pharmacy, although we have tried several ways to reduce the rate of dispensing errors.
  Aims
  To evaluate the data of pharmacists' practice for building an additional safety..

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