Tall Man lettering

Tall Man lettering

Tall Man lettering (or Tallman lettering) is the practice of writing part of a drug's name in upper case letters to help distinguish sound-alike, look-alike drugs from one another in order to avoid medication errors. [http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/nameDiff.htm "U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Name Differentiation Project website browsed 2007/12/20"] ] [http://www.ismp.org/faq.asp#Question_5 "Institute for Safe Medication Practices FAQ #5 browsed 2007/12/20"] ] For example, in Tall Man lettering, "prednisone" and "prednisolone" should be written "predniSONE" and "prednisoLONE", respectively. The Office of Generic Drugs of the Food and Drug Administration encourages manufacturers to use Tall Man lettering labels to visually differentiate their drugs' names, and a number of hospitals, clinics, and health care systems use Tall Man lettering in their computerized order entry, automated dispensing machines, medication admission records, prescription labels, and drug product labels [Examples: [http://uuhsc.utah.edu/pharmacy/alerts/191.html "University of Utah Health Care Pharmacy Alert #191"] dated 2006/12/04, browsed 2007/12/20; [http://www.fraserhealth.ca/NR/rdonlyres/ewn3tcyxapmdwy2tuswtkze6o4gueut4oe2gwl752igxymg4agig4eofkj2vazzf6bg44rn5c7lkdj/DocKnowSept06.pdf Fraser Health 'Doctors in the Know' newsletter] dated September, 2006, browsed 2007/12/20; [http://web.archive.org/web/20070315205409/http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/anesthesiology/Headlines/news_0725_Hosp_Pharm_July2005.pdf Johns Hopkins Hospital "Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter"] dated July 2005, archived 2007/3/15.] .

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