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Issue title: Special Section 1: Ergonomic Practices in Hong Kong
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Or, Calvin K.L. | Chan, Alan H.S.
Affiliations: Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China | Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China
Note: [] Corresponding author: Calvin K. L. Or, 8/fl., Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Haking Wong Building, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Tel.: +852 2859 2587; Fax: +852 2858 6535; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Orthographically similar drug names create confusion errorsand pose a potential threat to medication safety. Enhancing the differing letters in similar drug names is one possible way to address the problem. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the effects oftext enhancement methods(tall man, boldface, larger lowercase, and red lettering withlowercase as the comparison group) and orthographic similarity (referred to the extent to which the letters that made up the two names in a pair were similar to each other) on the differentiation performance of look-alike drug names. METHODS: Sixty individualsfroma university and its affiliatedhospitalparticipated in the differentiation test in which theydetermined whether the two drug names in each of the120 confusable name pairs were the same or different. Outcome measures were response time and proportion of correct responses. RESULTS: Using larger lowercase and red letteringresulted in significantly shorter response times. Drug names that were more similar to each other led to significantly longer response times. Text enhancement and orthographic similarity did not have impact on proportion of correct responses. CONCLUSIONS: Our study provides additional support for the use of text enhancement to emphasize the differences between medicines with names that look alike.
Keywords: Human factors, drug safety, orthographically similar drug name, textual format, drug name differentiation
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-131809
Journal: Work, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 521-528, 2014
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