药品商品名及其商标注册现状的分析与建议

目的分析药品商品名及注册商标存在的名称重复、相似、读音相同等现象,为规范商品名命名与商标注册管理,保障临床安全用药提供参考。方法检索国家食品药品监督管理局共享数据库,对商品名进行对比分析。随机抽取部分商品名检索商标注册情况。结果检索到商品名7 323条,3 462个(47.3%)商品名分别对应单一药品。一个商品名对应两个通用名称的有10组,商品名相似的有70组,读音相同的有122组。随机抽取384个商品名中注册的有316种(82.3%)。结论商品名存在一药多名、名称相似、读音相同较普遍,存在一个商品名、商标名对应不同通用名称药品的一名多药现象;商品名字频符合Zipf定律。商品名作为商标注册率较高。医务工作者应重视药品商品名问题,建议相关部门规范商品名命名与商标注册,保证用药安全。

Survey of similarity of drug trade names and registered trade names

Objective To describe the factors of confusions between drug trade names and drug registered names that might lead to medication errors. Methods Drug trade names data are collected from the shared database at State Food and Drug Administration website. The drug names are matched to find out if they were sound-alike or look-alike. Results 7 323 trade name records were collected and 3 462(47.3%) of them were those one trade name for one drug products. Further experiment indicates that 10 groups trade names among the records were different international nonproprietary names that share one trade name with each other. 70 groups were look-alike and 122 groups were sound-alike. 316 of 384 randomly selected trade names were registered. Some registered names were the same as some trade names but for different international nonproprietary name drugs respectively. Conclusion The factors that different names share one drug, different drugs share one name, sound-alike names and look-alike names are common, which is thought to be the contributing cause of medication errors. More attention should be paid on drug trade names to minimize the risk of wrong-selecting, wrong-dispensing and wrong-administrating drugs. Regulation should be established on designing appropriate drug names as well.