As complexity for treating patients increases, so does the risk of error. Some publications have suggested that record and verify (R&V) systems may contribute in propagating errors. Direct data transfer has the potential to eliminate most, but not all, errors. And although the dosimetric consequences may be obvious in some cases, a detailed study does not exist. In this effort, we examined pote...

INTRODUCTION Six out of every 10 elderly persons live in developing countries. OBJECTIVE To analyze and assess the drug prescription patterns and errors in elderly outpatients attending public health care centers in Mexico City, Mexico. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive and retrospective study was conducted in 2007. Fourteen hundred prescriptions were analyzed. Prescriptions of ambulatory...

any suboptimum treatment in the management of patients can lead to medication errors (mes) that may increase morbidity and mortality in hospitalized individuals. by establishing well-designed patient care activities within the managed care setting, clinical pharmacists can cooperate with other health care professionals to provide quality care and maximize safety. the aim of this study was to ev...

Incorrect restraint use is widespread among child passengers and increases the risk of injury in a crash. Based on previous laboratory testing, individual modes of incorrect use are often rated as serious or minor. However, in a recent populationbased observational study in NSW Australia, almost one third of incorrect use was found to involve multiple minor errors. In this test series we hypoth...

We extend the n-gram-based data-driven prediction approach (Elghafari, Meurers and Wunsch, 2010) to identify function word errors in non-native academic texts as part of the Helping Our Own (HOO) Shared Task. We focus on substitution errors for four categories: prepositions, determiners, conjunctions, and quantifiers. These error types make up 12% of the errors annotated in the HOO training dat...