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As one of JCAHO’s National Patient Safety Goals, we will be reviewing look-alike, sound-alike medication errors in an attempt to prevent mistakes involving the interchange of these drugs. Not only are there tons of drugs out on the market, each drug may have at least two names, a generic name, and a trade name. On top of the fact that there are so many medication names, there are many lines of communication and many hands involved in the process of administering medications to our patients. These factors along with many others make it imperative to increase awareness of this topic as well as invent ways to help prevent these errors.