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USP announces new tool to help prevent medication mix-ups due to look alike/sound alike drug names

Date:8/25/2008

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One example of a drug involved in such errors reported to MEDMARX is Clonidine, a high blood pressure medication. In actual instances reported to USP, this drug was confused with multiple drugs, including Colchicine (used for gout), Cetirizine (an antihistamine), and Clonazepam and its brand name, Klonopin (used for anxiety and seizures). "As one can imagine, for someone with hypertension, receiving the wrong medication could present a potentially severe consequence," noted Cousins. "This is exactly the type of mix-up we think could be avoided through tools such as our Drug Error Finder. This may be useful to parties across the health care system who are involved in dispensing and administering medicationsand especially to caregivers and to patients, who should always remain vigilant and participate actively in their care." The 2008 MEDMARX Report found 25 different levels of individuals involved in similar name errors, from pharmacy technicians, nurses and physicians to patients and family members.

To use the Drug Error Finder, simply type in the name of the particular drug of interest. In addition to rapidly generating a list of medications that have been confused with that drug, the tool will also allow users to see the severity attributed to the reported errors involving the drug (ranging from Category A for "potential for error" to Category I for "death").

The Drug Error Finder is one component of USP's response to the Institute of Medicine's 2006 report, Preventing Medication Errors, which calls on the government and public health organizations to address medication errors resulting from similar labeling and packaging as well as confusingly similar drug names.

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Contact: Sandra Kim
sek@usp.org
301-816-8241
US Pharmacopeia
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