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Drug Error Finder.
United States Pharmacopeia.  
 

This Web site hosts a searchable directory of more than 1400 drug names involved in look-alike/sound-alike medication errors and designates the severity of errors reported to the United States Pharmacopeia reporting programs.
 
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Resource Type:  Web Resource > Multi-use Website

Target Audience:  Health Care Providers

   Health Care Executives and Administrators

   Patients

Clinical Area:  Pharmacy

Safety Target:  Medication Safety > Specific to High-Risk Drugs > Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs

Error Types:  Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events

Approach to Improving Safety:  Error Reporting and Analysis > Error Reporting > Nongovernmental Reporting

Origin/Sponsor:  North America > United States of America
Produced for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by a team of editors at the University of California, San Francisco with guidance from a prominent Editorial Board. This site was designed and implemented by Silverchair.

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