Unit of measurement used and parent medication dosing errors

Pediatrics

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Shonna Yin, H ^a   Dreyer, Benard P ^a   Ugboaja, Donna C ^a   Sanchez, Dayana C ^a   Paul, Ian M ^b   Moreira, Hannah A ^a   Rodriguez, Luis ^c   Mendelsohn, Alan L ^a  

^a BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Health communication; Health literacy; Medication errors

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICATION ERROR; MILLILITER; PARENTAL AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS; TABLESPOON UNIT; TEASPOON UNIT; UNIT OF MEASUREMENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH LITERACY; MEDICATION ERRORS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; DRUG DOSAGE CALCULATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PARENTS; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 84905233103     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-0395     Document Type: Article

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