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

April 14, 2010

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

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

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