Are you short or TALL? Reducing risk of drug errors.

Drug errors pose great risks to patients, and can be the result of health professionals misreading drug labels. Tallman lettering is a labelling system that uses capital letters to distinguish between drug names that look or sound similar. However, the system itself is not standardised, and this is...

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Publicado en:Technic: The Journal of Operating Department Practice Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 6 - 8
Autor principal: Underwood, Keith
Formato: pictorial Journal Article
Publicado: Ten Alps Creative May2012
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Sumario:Drug errors pose great risks to patients, and can be the result of health professionals misreading drug labels. Tallman lettering is a labelling system that uses capital letters to distinguish between drug names that look or sound similar. However, the system itself is not standardised, and this is a necessary next step to further minimise drug errors and the harm they cause to patients.