Lambert, Bruce L.; Dickey, Laura Walsh; Fisher, William M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 70 (2010) 10, pp. 1599-1608
Clinicians and patients often confuse drug names that sound alike. We conducted auditory perception experiments in the United States to assess the impact of similarity, familiarity, background noise and other factors on clinicians' (physicians, family pharmacists, nurses) and laypersons' ability...