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Medications requiring special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm. 0000075932 00000 n 0000052298 00000 n 0000095449 00000 n trailer <<15E27F5915DB4403B772D26E552634E1>]/Prev 109648/XRefStm 1390>> startxref 0 %%EOF 839 0 obj <>stream 0000074201 00000 n 0000001390 00000 n An official website of the United States government: Utilizing Tall Man Lettering. 2016 Jun 2 [cited 2019 Aug 23]. endobj 2 0 obj %���� <> A patient diagnosed with type 2 diabetes requests a refill of a prescription for extended release glipizide. 0000076316 00000 n h���1 0ð$�)��h��!��,)W�i�~��~��e_� c� � endstream endobj 798 0 obj <>/Metadata 10 0 R/Pages 9 0 R/StructTreeRoot 12 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 799 0 obj <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 1190.55 841.89]/Type/Page>> endobj 800 0 obj <> endobj 801 0 obj <> endobj 802 0 obj <>stream 0000052692 00000 n 6. endobj 0000066103 00000 n 0000001732 00000 n Tall Man lettering Tall man lettering is the practice of writing part of a drugs name in upper case letters to help distinguish sound-alike, look-alike drugs from one another in order to avoid medication errors. 0000052527 00000 n acetoHEXAMIDE—acetaZOLAMIDE; buPROPion—busPIRone; chlorproMAZINE—chlorproPAMIDE; clomiPHENE—clomiPRAMINE; cycloSPORINE—cycloSERINE; DAUNOrubicin—DOXOrubicin; dimenhyDRINATE—diphenhydrAMINE; DOBUTamine—DOPamine; glipiZIDE—glyBURIDE; hydrALAZINE—hydrOXYzine; … 0000052597 00000 n Tall Man Lettering Corporate Policy & Procedures Manual Number: VII-B -340 Date Approved November 23, 2017 ... cephaLEXIN glipiZIDE chlordiazePOXIDE glyBURIDE chlorproMAZine guaiFENesin chlorproPAMIDE guanFACINE . For example, in tall man lettering, "prednisone" and "prednisolone" should be written "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE", respectively. Tall Man Lettering Date Effective Dec. 8, 2017 Starting on the left side of a drug name, TML highlights the differences between similar drug names by capitalizing dissimilar letters (e.g., vinBLAStine versus vinCRIStine and CISplatin versus CARBOplatin).In 2001, FDA initiated the name differentiation project to continually evaluate postmarketing reports of name pair confusion, and  determine if TML should be used to help differentiate similar The following is a list of the established drug names recommended to use tall man lettering: %PDF-1.4 %���� 0000002511 00000 n 0000070032 00000 n x�͝Ys�F������o�vAT��p8��Yʒmz���C��e�Rl��PyT�v�x,��DfV�2��Oo�.ݝ�m>���ӻ���o�6����������ۋ��ח׻�������^�ٿ��b����O6O>�l���GM[���kuQ���b�6u]��������hs���P����G'_��қ�_?R����6�#� Ma?xcd���ۼ�}��ܼv��ᷯ?��h������}a�}�l?h=�/��+�!�H��BW��:/)��b_�k�J�mSt�6�����ۓg�m6_ FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Names with Recommended Tall Man Letters continued on next page > Table 1.FDA-Approved List of Generic Drug Names with Tall Man Letters Earlier we imagined glipizide and glyburide being confused. Summary: Drug interactions are reported among people who take Glipizide and Cephalexin together. ISMP suggests that the bolded, tall man lettering scheme provided by FDA and ISMP for the drug name pairs listed in Tables 1 and 2 be followed to promote consistency. * not capitalised as part of the Tall Man lettering methodology exception rules List Published December 2013 aLLOPURINol aTENOLol ... cephaLEXin /cefaLEXin cephaZOLin /cefaZOLin Benzodiazepines CLONazepam DIazepam NITRazepam OXazepam ... fluoxetine* DULoxetine PARoxetine fluVOXAMine Sulphonylurea Agents gliBENCLAMide gliCLAZide gliPIZide.