[Ads-l] camelCase revisited

[Laurence Horn]

And not just to alleviate problems with stress?

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 2:54 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> so maybe THAT's why one of my meds invariably gets listed as "buPROPion".
> 
> Mark Mandel
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:27 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
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>> https://www.ismp.org/resources/special-edition-tall-man-lettering-ismp-updates-its-list-drug-names-tall-man-letters
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>> There is a problem with medication errors due to drug names that look
>> similar.
>> 
>> from the above Website:
>> "a number of design techniques have been explored for the purpose of
>> differentiating look-alike drug names. Tall man lettering is one such
>> technique. Tall man lettering, a term coined by the Institute for Safe
>> Medication Practices (ISMP), describes a method for differentiating the
>> unique letter characters of similar drug names known to have been confused
>> with one another. Starting with a drug name printed in lowercase letters,
>> tall man lettering highlights the differences between similar drug names by
>> capitalizing dissimilar letters."
>> 
>> an example (from _Nursing 2019_ Volume 49 number 3 March 2019 page 72)
>> distinguishing migalastat and miglustat can be done as
>> 
>> migALAstat versus migLUstat.
>> 
>> 13,900,000 Google hits for "tall man lettering
>> 
>> - Jim Landau
>> 
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