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

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2597-2601

  Filik, Ruth ^a   Purdy, Kevin ^a   Gale, Alastair ^a   Gerrett, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug labelling; Eye movements; Look alike names; Medication error; Patient safety; Tall Man letters

Indexed keywords

DRUG DEVELOPMENT; SAFETY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG NOMENCLATURE; EVALUATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; PRINTING; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; DRUG LABELING; DRUG PACKAGING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; SAFETY; TABLETS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TERMINOLOGY; WRITING;

EID: 5144231820     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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