Quick, reliable checks for meds and units

Seeing more AI‑polished dictations lately, and I’m catching sneaky slips in drug capitalization and unit spacing. As a proofreading specialist, my baseline is BOS 4e with ISMP’s error‑prone abbreviations and DailyMed for label confirmation — what fast checks are you using to keep LASA issues in check without slowing down? If a report mentions severe or emergent symptoms, I flag it for provider review and note that patients should contact a licensed professional.

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I keep RxNav (https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/) pinned and type the first 3–4 letters to surface look‑alike names with ingredients, then a TextExpander macro highlights dose–unit spacing on paste — two‑second pit stop that catches hydralazine/hydroxyzine. Tiny caveat: RxNav can lag on new brands, so I still spot-check with DailyMed, and if the note reads emergent I pause and escalate to a licensed clinician. @OP do you find Tall Man lettering in your templates helpful or too noisy?

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I set up a tiny AutoHotkey replace set that auto–Tall Mans look‑alikes as I type (hydrOXYzine/hydrALAzine), seeded from ISMP’s list: https://www.ismp.org/recommendations/tall-man-letters; @etje348 your RxNav trick pairs nicely for ingredient checks. I toggle it off in templates to avoid caps creep — do you use editor snippets or system‑wide?

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, the AI caps drive me nuts. My quick win: I keep a tiny brand whitelist from the client formulary and run one pass that auto‑lowercases any med not on it (BOS 4e‑friendly) plus a quick find for [redacted]/[redacted]/[redacted] to catch missing spaces; caveat, it can misfire at sentence starts. And if I see “severe or emergent symptoms,” I stop and escalate to the provider instead of polishing — do you do the same, @SamProof?

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