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Drug name confusion: evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data
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posted on 2006-06-15, 11:37 authored by Ruth Filik, Kevin Purdy, Alastair Gale, David GerrettMedication errors commonly involve confusion between drug names that look or sound alike. One possible method
of reducing these errors is to print sections of the names in ‘‘Tall Man’’ (capital) letters, in order to emphasise
differences between similar products. This paper reports an eye-tracking experiment that evaluates this strategy.
Participants had their eye movements monitored while they searched for a target product amongst an array of product
packs. The target pack was replaced by a similar distractor in the array. Participants made fewer errors when the
appearance of the names had been altered, that is, they were less likely to incorrectly identify a distractor as the target
drug. This result was reflected in the eye movement data.
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FILIK, R. ... et al, 2004. Drug name confusion: evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data. Social Science and Medicine, 59, pp. 2597-2601Publisher
© ElsevierPublication date
2004Notes
This is Restricted Access. This article was published in the journal, Social Science and Medicine [© Elsevier] and is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536.ISSN
0277-9536Language
- en