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Table 2 Examples of misspelled medication names and their Damerau–Levenshtein distance

From: Replicating medication trend studies using ad hoc information extraction in a clinical data warehouse

Product name

Misspells

Distance

Operation

Ibuhexal

Ibohexal

1

Substitution

Cordarex

Kordarex

1

Substitution

Warfarin

Wafarin

1

Snsertion

Euphylong

Euphyllong

1

Deletion

Repaglinid

Repagilnid

1

Transposition

Ramipril

Rampiril

1

Transposition

Repaglinid

Repagilid

2

Transposition, insertion