Number of identified look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medicine groups, their storage and the amount of LASA groups involving high-alert medications
| LASA RISK Inventory reports | LASA groups involving high-alert medications n (%) | LASA groups not involving high-alert medications n (%) | All LASA groups n (%) |
| Generic names | 18 (38) | 37 (29) | 55 (31) |
| ·Nordic article number pairs* | 0 (0) | 2 (15) | 2 (11) |
| Brand names | 4 (8) | 11 (9) | 15 (9) |
| ·Nordic article number pairs* | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Generic and brand names | 26 (54) | 79 (62) | 105 (60) |
| ·Nordic article number pairs* | 6 (100) | 11 (85) | 17 (89) |
| Total | 48 (100) | 127 (100) | 175 (100) |
| 6 (100) | 13 (100) | 19 (100) | |
| LASA risk Visual observation | |||
| Outer package | 1 (17) | 2 (22.2) | 3 (20) |
| Inner package† | 3 (50) | 4 (44.4) | 7 (47) |
| Outer and inner package | 2 (33) | 3 (33.3) | 5 (33) |
| Total | 6 (100) | 9 (100) | 15 (100) |
| Storage | |||
| Storage was safe | 41 (80) | 106 (82) | 147 (81.2) |
| Storage was unsafe | 8 (16) | 20 (15) | 28 (15.5) |
| Observations with the storage | 2 (4) | 4 (3) | 6 (3.3) |
| Total | 51 (100) | 130 (100) | 181 (100) |
*Similar Nordic article numbers were observed from only the LASA groups identified by name and are already included in the total LASA group amount.
†Similar inner packages were observed only based on the unsafely storage LASA groups identified by name.