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| Title |
Stop spoon dosing: milliliter instructions reduce inclination to spoon dosing
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-015-1809-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Koert van Ittersum, Brian Wansink |
| Abstract |
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? Participants given dosing instructions in teaspoon units were twice as likely to choose a kitchen teaspoon as those given instructions in milliliter units (31.3 vs. 15.4 %). Our results suggest that spoon usage-and the inherent risk of dosage errors-could be reduced by more than 50 % simply by changing the units of measurement given in dosing instructions. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 18 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 18 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 6 | 33% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 11% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 6% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 22% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 17% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 11% |
| Psychology | 2 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 February 2016.
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#1,100,860
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#114
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#21,476
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#7
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