Automatic identification of confusable drug names

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ObjectiveMany hundreds of drugs have names that either look or sound so much alike that doctors, nurses and pharmacists can get them confused, dispensing the wrong one in errors that can injure or even kill patients.

论文关键词:Drug names,Lexical similarity,Medical errors,Evaluation methodology

论文评审过程:Received 27 December 2004, Revised 18 July 2005, Accepted 25 July 2005, Available online 15 December 2005.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2005.07.005