This report for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reviews
Australian studies about medication safety, updating work previously undertaken on …

Background and aim Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible
without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is …

Purpose Unclear labeling has been recognized as an important cause of look-alike
medication errors. The aim of this literature review is to systematically evaluate the current …

Background The implementation of preventive measures of look-alike/sound-alike drugs
incidents has given rise to a fundamental rule in Clinical Risk Management, but the problem …

Objective Oral pills, including tablets and capsules, are one of the most popular
pharmaceutical dosage forms available. Compared to other dosage forms, such as liquid …

Background Despite the widespread implementation of Tall Man lettering, little evidence
exists regarding whether this technique has reduced drug errors due to look-alike sound …

Dispensing errors play a crucial role in various medical errors, unfortunately emerging as
the third leading cause of death in the United States. This alarming statistic has spurred the …

Aims The aim of this systematic review was to explore and evaluate the efficacy of
interventions to reduce the prevalence of look‐alike, sound‐alike (LASA) medication name …

Background Confusion between look-alike and sound-alike (LASA) medication names (such
as mercaptamine and mercaptopurine) accounts for up to one in four medication errors …

Objectives To improve patient safety, we investigated near-miss dispensing errors in our
hospital and evaluated the effectiveness of specific preventive strategies. Methods The …