Listen carefully: the risk of error in spoken medication orders.

Bruce L. Lambert; Laura Walsh Dickey; William M. Fisher; Robert D. Gibbons; Swu-Jane Lin; Paul A. Luce; Conor T. McLennan; John W. Senders; Clement T. Yu

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Listen carefully: the risk of error in spoken medication orders.

May 4, 2010

Lambert BL, Dickey LW, Fisher WM, et al. Soc Sci Med. 2010;70(10):1599-608.

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This auditory perception study explored factors that led to erroneous verbal orders.

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