Phonetic and Wildcard Search

Medication errors are among the most common errors that occur in medicine today.

According to a report by the Institute of Medicine, medication errors cause more than 7,000 deaths and harm 1.5 million people in the United States each year. Researchers have also estimated that nearly 60 percent of all adverse medical events are the result of medication errors.

Confusion caused by similar sounding drug names accounts for up to 25 percent of all medication errors.

Drugs.com has developed a phonetic search function to assist in identifying the correct medicine where the spelling of a medicine's name is unknown and only the pronunciation is available.

We have also listed the most common misspellings of popular drug names below.

Common Misspellings