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Stop spoon dosing: milliliter instructions reduce inclination to spoon dosing

BACKGROUND: Does the use of teaspoon units in dose recommendations on Drug Facts panels of liquid medicine lead to dosing errors and could any such errors be reduced if millimeter units were used instead? FINDINGS: Participants given dosing instructions in teaspoon units were twice as likely to choo...

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Autores principales: van Ittersum, Koert, Wansink, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1809-1