[Ads-l] camelCase revisited

[Mark Mandel]

so maybe THAT's why one of my meds invariably gets listed as "buPROPion".

Mark Mandel


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:27 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

>
> https://www.ismp.org/resources/special-edition-tall-man-lettering-ismp-updates-its-list-drug-names-tall-man-letters
>
> 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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