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Tall man lettering (tall-man lettering or tallman lettering) is the practice of writing part of a drug's name in upper case letters to help distinguish sound-alike, look-alike drugs from one another in order to avoid medication errors.〔("U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Name Differentiation Project ), website browsed 2007/12/20"〕〔("Institute for Safe Medication Practices FAQ #5 ), browsed 2007/12/20"〕 For example, in tall man lettering, "prednisone" and "prednisolone" should be written "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE", respectively. The Office of Generic Drugs of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encourages manufacturers to use tall man lettering labels to visually differentiate their drugs' names,〔 and a number of hospitals, clinics, and health care systems use tall man lettering in their computerized order entry, automated dispensing machines, medication admission records, prescription labels, and drug product labels.〔Examples: ("University of Utah Health Care Pharmacy Alert #191" ) dated 2006/12/04, browsed 2007/12/20; (Fraser Health 'Doctors in the Know' newsletter ) dated September, 2006, browsed 2007/12/20; (Johns Hopkins Hospital "Pharmacy and Therapeutics Newsletter" ) dated July 2005, archived 2007/3/15.〕 ==Examples== The FDA and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) published a list 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.ismp.org/tools/tallmanletters.pdf )〕 of recommended Tall-Man Letters for look-alike drugs which includes, but is not limited to: *acetaZOLAMIDE vs. acetoHEXAMIDE *buPROPion vs. busPIRone *chlorproMAZINE vs. chlorproPAMIDE *clomiPHENE vs. clomiPRAMINE *cycloSERINE vs. cycloSPORINE *DAUNOrubicin vs. DOXOrubicin *DOBUTamine vs. DOPamine *hydrALAZINE vs. hydrOXYzine *TOLAZamide vs. TOLBUTamide *vinBLAStine vs. vinCRIStine 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tall Man lettering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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