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, Clinical Programs Coordiantor
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, Pharmacy Services Coordiantor
Many medication names look or sound like other medications. Below is a list of organziations that have provided lists of medications that are easily confused.
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Sound-alike look-alike webpage – provides links to recent news and journal articles discussing this topic.
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP): provides news articles about recent sound-alike look-alike medication alerts.
- USP Drug Error Finder: searchable database of sound-alike look-alike medications. Drugs are also tagged according to severity attributed to the reported error.
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