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Face and politeness in pharmacist-physician interactionB L Lambert
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Soc Sci Med 43:1189-98. 1996..Regardless of other factors, recommendations were made more politely than reports. Implications for pharmacists' professional roles and identities are discussed...
Listen carefully: the risk of error in spoken medication ordersBruce L Lambert
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Soc Sci Med 70:1599-608. 2010..We conclude that the ability of clinicians and lay people to identify spoken drug names is influenced by signal-to-noise ratio, subjective familiarity, prescribing frequency, and the similarity neighborhoods of drug names...
Diabetes risk associated with use of olanzapine, quetiapine, and risperidone in veterans health administration patients with schizophreniaBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:672-81. 2006..Prescribers should be mindful of diabetes risks when treating patients with schizophrenia...
Designing safe drug namesBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Drug Saf 28:495-512. 2005....
Antipsychotic exposure and type 2 diabetes among patients with schizophrenia: a matched case-control study of California Medicaid claimsBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612 7231, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 14:417-25. 2005..To examine the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus among people with schizophrenia exposed to atypical antipsychotics (clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone) compared to those exposed to conventional antipsychotics...
Association between antipsychotic treatment and hyperlipidemia among California Medicaid patients with schizophreniaBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612 7231, USA
J Clin Psychopharmacol 25:12-8. 2005..To examine the risk of hyperlipidemia among people with schizophrenia exposed to new antipsychotics (clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone) compared with those exposed to older generation antipsychotics...
A system for multiattribute drug product comparisonBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street M C 871, Chicago, Illinois 60612 7231, USA
J Med Syst 28:31-56. 2004..6% of the variance in observed mean similarity ratings. Automated, multiattribute drug product searching may improve the effectiveness and efficiency of preapproval screening processes and thereby prevent medication errors...
Effects of frequency and similarity neighborhoods on pharmacists' visual perception of drug namesBruce L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612 7231, USA
Soc Sci Med 57:1939-55. 2003..Organizations that coin and evaluate drug names, as well as hospitals, pharmacies, and health systems, should consider these characteristics when assessing visually confusing names...
Immediate free recall of drug names: effects of similarity and availabilityBruce L Lambert
Departments of Pharmacy Administration and Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street M C 871, Chicago, IL 60612 7231, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 60:156-68. 2003..The effects of similarity, familiarity, and frequency on short-term memory of drug names vary as a function of task and stimulus characteristics...
Effect of orthographic and phonological similarity on false recognition of drug namesB L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612 7231, USA
Soc Sci Med 52:1843-57. 2001..Similarity is easily and cheaply measured, and therefore, steps should be taken to monitor and reduce similarity as a means of reducing the likelihood of drug name confusions...
Arthritis care: comparison of physicians' and patients' viewsB L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 30:100-10. 2000....
Similarity as a risk factor in drug-name confusion errors: the look-alike (orthographic) and sound-alike (phonetic) modelB L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Med Care 37:1214-25. 1999..The rate of name-confusion errors might be reduced if new and confusing names were not allowed on the market and if safeguards could be put in place to avoid confusion between existing names...
Predicting look-alike and sound-alike medication errorsB L Lambert
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago 60612 7231, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 54:1161-71. 1997..Automated measures of similarities between medication names can form the basis of highly accurate, sensitive, and specific tests of the potential for errors with look-alike and sound-alike medication names...
Analysis of computer alerts suggesting oral medication use during computerized order entry of i.v. medicationsWilliam Galanter
Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 67:1101-5. 2010..Compliance with computer alerts suggesting oral medication use during computerized order entry of i.v. medications was analyzed...
Effects of clinical decision support on venous thromboembolism risk assessment, prophylaxis, and prevention at a university teaching hospitalWilliam L Galanter
College of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, and University of Illinois Hospital Information Services, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 67:1265-73. 2010....
Frequency estimates from prescription drug datasets (revision of #04-11-066A)Swu Jane Lin
Department of Pharmacy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:512-20. 2006..These differences are likely to create ambiguity and contradictions in the scientific literature, but they are not well understood...
Descriptive analysis of primary package labels from commercially available prescription solid oral dosage form drugsTodd E Chermak
Department of Pharmacy Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612 7231, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (2003) 49:399-406. 2009..To describe formats used by manufacturers to display drug names on primary package labels for prescription solid oral dosage forms...
Hospital policies and practices on prevention and treatment of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusYoojung Yang
Center for Pharmacoeconomic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 67:1017-24. 2010....
Pain and depression in caregivers affected their perception of pain in stroke patientsShih Ying Hung
Department of Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin at Madison, College of Pharmacy, Madison, WI 53705 2222, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 60:963-70. 2007..The aim of this study was to determine if caregiver depressive symptoms and/or pain systematically affected patient-proxy agreement on patient HRQL after stroke...
Research Grants
- Auditory Perception of Drug Names: Neighborhood EffectsBruce Lambert; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- Tools for Optimizing Prescribing, Monitoring and EducationBruce Lambert; Fiscal Year: 2007....
