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

[Karsten Hilbert]

I do think this is something FreeDiams should be aware of as well.

> 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.

This latter suggestion is something for which there's no
support in GNUmed atm.

> (1) do people favour the incorporation into GNUmed medication names?

I think it's a good idea.

> (2) are people aware of such a practice for any non-english brand (or 
> non-brand) names?

Not that I know as far as Germany is concerned.

Adrian Midgley (and Richard, I believe) has proposed
something similar back in the days - except that the
software would know a list of commonly confused medication
names and actively reconfirm at certain steps, say,
prescription writing.

Perhaps we can hear their take on this TALLman thingy as well ?

Karsten
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