Using tall man letters, alone or with other text enhancements, has been shown to reduce errors due to drug name similarity. However, the evidence is mixed, with some studies showing the method may not be effective.

ISMP List of Confused th Recommended Tall Man Letters. We hope you will use this list to determine which medications require special safegua ds to reduce the risk of errors. This may include strategies such as: using both the brand and generic n

Table 1 provides a list of FDA-approved established drug name sets with recommended tall man letters, which were first identified during the FDA Name Differentiation Project (www.fda.gov/CDER/Drug/ MedErrors/nameDiff.htm).

FDA and ISMP Lists of Look-Alike Drug Names with Recommended Tall Man Letters Since 2008, ISMP has maintained a list of drug name pairs and trios with recommended, bolded tall man (uppercase) letters to help draw attention to the dissimilarities in look-alike drug names.

The Drug-Free Communities program at the Adair County Health Department is proud to host nationally recognized youth substance use prevention expert Jermaine Galloway, "Tall Cop."

tall applies to what grows or rises high by comparison with others of its kind and usually implies relative narrowness.

In a tall organizational structure, employees often lie at the bottom of a long chain of supervisors, managers, and executives.

TALL definition: having a relatively great height; of more than average stature: tall grass. See examples of tall used in a sentence.