APhA sent me Survey Information

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Dear All,

APhA sent me this survey information. If you believe your pharmacy or

pharmacist has has problems with the 'endings' of drugs causing

medication errors please pass this information on: Post it or give it

to your director/pharmacist.

" Introduction

The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and

Prevention (the " Council " ) is asking for your input regarding the use

of drug name suffixes. This survey has been disseminated by multiple

organizations so if you have recently completed an on-line survey

sponsored by the Council about the use of suffixes or from another

organization, message board, or list serve, you do not need to

complete this survey again.

The intent of this survey is to assess practitioners' experience with

the use of drug name suffixes. The results of this survey will be used

to assess the current use of suffixes, problems that may arise from

the use of suffixes and how those situations are handled. The current

practice of naming drug products within the same product line (e.g.,

different strengths, formulations) is to add a suffix to the existing

name rather than propose an entirely different name (i.e., " Drug name

SR " ). Suffixes have also been used to describe many different and

unique characteristics of drug products such as distinguishing a new

modified dosage formulation from a currently marketed immediate

release or modified release dosage formulation. A suffix may be a

letter, number, a word, or combination of letters and/or numbers

attached to the end of a proprietary drug name. They can range from

one to four character strings of numbers or letter than don't spell

anything, or a suffix can be a word or a word part that describes the

package, a package characteristic, or a product characteristic.

The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. Please submit your

answers by June 15, 2008. Your answers to this survey will remain

anonymous. Thank you for your participation in this survey. "

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=FsK_2b2LGWHvXmfy3asDsi9A_3d_3d

Respectfully,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Pharmacy Technician Educator

Founder/Owner of this site