First DataBank.

San Bruno, Calif.-based First DataBank today has added Tall Man Plus drug identification data to its NDDF Plus drug knowledge base. Designed to reduce medication errors, "tall man" lettering helps medical professionals detect drugs that could be confused because of similar names. Tall Man Plus upper- and lower-casing of drug names presents portions of a name in all capitals, to visually distinguish it from other, similarly named drugs. For example, a drug such as acetazolamide would appear as AcetaZOLAMIDE, to distinguish it from acetahexamide, which would appear as AcetaHEXAMIDE.