Automatic identification of confusable drug names

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-42

  Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Dorr, Bonnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Drug names; Evaluation methodology; Lexical similarity; Medical errors

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; SET THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

DRUG NAMES; EVALUATION METHODOLOGY; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; MEDICAL ERRORS;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ACCURACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFUSION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; DRUG LABELING; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MEDICATION ERRORS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 30344465707     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.07.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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