Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues

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Autor(a) principal: Pires,Carla
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Vigário,Marina, Cavaco,Afonso
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232015000802569
Resumo: AbstractAmong other regulatory requirements, medicine brands should be composed of single names without abbreviations to prevent errors in prescription of medication. The purposes of the study were to investigate the compliance of a sam ple of Portuguese medicine brand names with Portuguese pharmaceutical regulations. This includes identifying their basic linguistic characteristics and comparing these features and their frequency of occurrence with benchmark values of the colloquial or informal language. A sample of 474 brand names was selected. Names were analyzed using manual (visual analyses) and computer methods (FreP - Frequency Patterns of Phonological Objects in Portuguese and MS word). A significant number of names (61.3%) failed to comply with the Portuguese phonologic system (related to the sound of words) and/or the spelling system (related to the written form of words) contained more than one word, comprised a high proportion of infrequent syllable types or stress patterns and included abbreviations. The results suggest that some of the brand names of Portuguese medication should be reevaluated, and that regulation on this issue should be enforced and updated, taking into consideration specific linguistic and spelling codes.
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title Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
spellingShingle Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
Pires,Carla
Commercial medication brand names
Qualitative analysis
Language
Linguistics
Medication legislation
title_short Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
title_full Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
title_fullStr Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
title_full_unstemmed Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
title_sort Brand names of Portuguese medication: understanding the importance of their linguistic structure and regulatory issues
author Pires,Carla
author_facet Pires,Carla
Vigário,Marina
Cavaco,Afonso
author_role author
author2 Vigário,Marina
Cavaco,Afonso
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pires,Carla
Vigário,Marina
Cavaco,Afonso
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Commercial medication brand names
Qualitative analysis
Language
Linguistics
Medication legislation
topic Commercial medication brand names
Qualitative analysis
Language
Linguistics
Medication legislation
description AbstractAmong other regulatory requirements, medicine brands should be composed of single names without abbreviations to prevent errors in prescription of medication. The purposes of the study were to investigate the compliance of a sam ple of Portuguese medicine brand names with Portuguese pharmaceutical regulations. This includes identifying their basic linguistic characteristics and comparing these features and their frequency of occurrence with benchmark values of the colloquial or informal language. A sample of 474 brand names was selected. Names were analyzed using manual (visual analyses) and computer methods (FreP - Frequency Patterns of Phonological Objects in Portuguese and MS word). A significant number of names (61.3%) failed to comply with the Portuguese phonologic system (related to the sound of words) and/or the spelling system (related to the written form of words) contained more than one word, comprised a high proportion of infrequent syllable types or stress patterns and included abbreviations. The results suggest that some of the brand names of Portuguese medication should be reevaluated, and that regulation on this issue should be enforced and updated, taking into consideration specific linguistic and spelling codes.
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