Misspelling of antimicrobials by healthcare professionals

Although electronic health records have widely reduced medication errors, and computerised hospital orders are an undeniable step-up in clarity from illegible handwritten orders,1234 they are not a patient safety panacea. Interpreting free text clinical information of any kind is far from straightforward, especially when it comes to antimicrobials. For starters, hundreds of antimicrobials exist, many have similar sounding names (looking at you, cephalosporins), and each antimicrobial can be referred to variously by brand name, generic …