Effect of orthographic and phonological similarity on false recognition of drug names

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1843-1857

  Lambert, Bruce L ^a   Chang, Ken Yu ^a   Lin, Swu Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug names; Medication error; Patient safety; Pharmacists; Recognition memory; USA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; DRUG SAFETY; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHARMACIST; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0035005805     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00301-4     Document Type: Article

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