Effects of frequency and similarity neighborhoods on pharmacists' visual perception of drug names

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1939-1955

  Lambert, Bruce L ^a   Chang, Ken Yu ^c   Gupta, Prahlad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Drug names; Medication error; Patient safety; Pharmacists; USA; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

DRUG DEVELOPMENT; PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DRUG LABELING; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VISION;

EID: 0141676839     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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