Case report of a medication error: In the eye of the beholder

INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organisation recognizes confusing drug names as one of the most common causes of medication errors. Other factors include spelling, phonetic, or packaging similarities. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a case report of an inadvertent administration of a non-ocular pharm...

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Autores principales: Naunton, Mark, Nor, Kowsar, Bartholomaeus, Andrew, Thomas, Jackson, Kosari, Sam
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4956810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27428216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004186
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description INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organisation recognizes confusing drug names as one of the most common causes of medication errors. Other factors include spelling, phonetic, or packaging similarities. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a case report of an inadvertent administration of a non-ocular pharmaceutical product (Novasone(®) lotion) into the eye of an octogenarian individual, and briefly reviewed the relevant literature. DISCUSSION: We discussed prevention strategies to avoid similar ophthalmic medication errors.
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spelling pubmed-49568102016-08-02 Case report of a medication error: In the eye of the beholder Naunton, Mark Nor, Kowsar Bartholomaeus, Andrew Thomas, Jackson Kosari, Sam Medicine (Baltimore) 5800 INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organisation recognizes confusing drug names as one of the most common causes of medication errors. Other factors include spelling, phonetic, or packaging similarities. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a case report of an inadvertent administration of a non-ocular pharmaceutical product (Novasone(®) lotion) into the eye of an octogenarian individual, and briefly reviewed the relevant literature. DISCUSSION: We discussed prevention strategies to avoid similar ophthalmic medication errors. Wolters Kluwer Health 2016-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4956810/ /pubmed/27428216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000004186 Text en Copyright © 2016 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives License 4.0, which allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the author. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
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