Drug name confusion: evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data

Medication errors commonly involve confusion between drug names that look or sound alike. One possible method of reducing these errors is to print sections of the names in ‘‘Tall Man’’ (capital) letters, in order to emphasise differences between similar products. This paper reports an eye-tracking e...

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Main Authors: Ruth Filik, Kevin Purdy, Alastair Gale, David Gerrett
Format: Default Article
Published: 2004
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Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Medication error
Drug labelling
Look-alike names
Eye movements
Tall Man letters
Patient safety
Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/2195
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