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 list includes mostly generic-generic drug name pairs, although a few brand-brand or brand-generic name pairs are included.

Apr 28, 2020 · Tall man lettering (TML) is a technique that uses uppercase lettering to help differentiate look-alike drug names.

Tall man lettering (tall-man lettering or tallman lettering) is the practice of writing part of a drug's name in upper case letters to help distinguish sound-alike, look-alike drugs from one another in order to avoid medication errors.

Jan 26, 2023 · Tall man (mixed case) lettering describes a method for differentiating the unique letter characters of similar drug names known to have been confused with one another. Starting with a generic drug name expressed in lowercase letters, tall man lettering highlights the differences between similar drug names by CAPITALIZING dissimilar letters.

Tall Man lettering is a typographic technique that uses selective capitalisation to help make similar looking medicine names more easily differentiable.[4,5,6] It uses a combination of lower- and upper-case letters to highlight the differences between look-alike medicine names, helping to make them more easily distinguishable. For example: .

Mar 25, 2025 · The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently updated its list of drug names with tall man (mixed case) letters based on the results of a survey of healthcare providers.

TALLman lettering is a method of applying upper-case lettering to sections of LASA drug names as a differentiation strategy. Canadian TALLman Lettering List Principles for the Application of TALLman Lettering (Revised March 2016)

The Commission has revised the National Tall Man Lettering List to include cloBAZam in the benzodiazepine class of medicines, based on the reporting of adverse events and near misses and its high similarity and likelihood of confusion with another benzodiazepine: CLONAZepam.

Since 2008, ISMP has maintained a list of drug name pairs or larger groupings with recommended, uppercase and bolded tall man (mixed case) letters to help draw attention to the dissimilarities in look-alike drug names. The list includes mostly generic-generic drug name pairs, although a few brand-brand or brand-generic name pairs are also included.