Look Alike Sound Alike Drugs 2020
Look alike sound alike drug can be confused with strategies to improve safety.
Look alike sound alike drugs 2020. Community ambulatory care edition through february 28 2019. This guideline serves as a reference for health personnel on handling of look alike sound alike medications. His list of confused drug names which includes look alike and sound alike name pairs consists of those name pairs that have been published in the ismp medication safety alert and the ismp medication safety alert community ambulatory care edition.
Amphotericin b liposomal ambisome amphotericin b conventional products are not bioequivalent and are stored separately in the pharmacy. Look alike sound alike lasa medications include medications that are visually the same in physical appearance or packaging and names of medications that have similar spelling or similar phonetics. Sound alike and look alike drugs.
Rev feb 2020 admin policies 16 31 appendix c 16 30 appendix a 1 look alike sound alike drugs to prevent medication errors involving drugs that may look alike or sound alike consider the following practices. Br j clin pharmacol. And the ismp medication safety alert.
Drug utilization in the treatment of diabetes mellitus in the ministry of health facilities. Epub ahead of print the problem of look alike sound alike lasa name errors. The performance improvement team that developed this guideline will continue to monitor new drugs on the market as they are released review the list included with this guideline on an annual basis and provide appropriate updates.
List of look alike sound alike lasa drug names 2020. Ep 1 the organization develops a list of look alike sound alike medications it stores dispenses or administers. Ismp s list of confused drug names contains look alike and sound alike lasa name pairs of medications that have been published in the ismp medication safety alert.
Medication ordering distinguishing medications by. 2020 moh pharmaceutical services programme. As more medicines and new brands are being marketed in addition to the thousands already available many of these medication names may look or sound alike.