[Gnumed-devel] Medication errors related to drug names, and the approach of TALLman lettering

[Jim Busser]

It used to be the practice (in Canada anyway) that non-proprietary drug named 
were depicted in lower case, and brand names with an initial cap.

More recently, the risks of drug name confusion brought forward a practice 
called TALLman lettering which, in addition to endorsing the distinction based 
on first character, proposed upper case within drug names to emphasize 
distinctions:

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Several studies have shown that highlighting sections of drug names using tall 
man letters can help distinguish similar drug names, making them less prone to 
mix-ups:

        http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=23730087
...
ISMP suggests that the tall man lettering scheme provided in Tables 1 and 2 be 
followed when presenting these drug names to healthcare providers to promote 
consistency. At this time, scientific studies do not support the use of tall 
man letters when presenting drug names to patients.

        http://www.ismp.org/Tools/tallmanletters.pdf
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Other countries, while they provide lists of commonly-confused medications, 
have not (as far as I could find) generated proposed TALLman substitutions in 
their own languages:

                
http://www.ismp-espana.org/ficheros/Actualización%20nuevos%20pares%20nombres%202005-2010.pdf

(1) do people favour the incorporation into GNUmed medication names?
(2) are people aware of such a practice for any non-english brand (or 
non-brand) names?

-- Jim

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