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A practical approach to measure the quality of handwritten medication orders: a tool for improvement.
Garbutt J, Milligan PE, McNaughton C, Waterman BM, Dunagan CW, Fraser VJ. J Patient Saf. 2005;1:195-200.

Investigators assessed handwritten medication orders and categorized the most common prescribing errors.
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