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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCURACY OF THE 5‐ML SPOON AS A MEASURE OF LIQUID ORAL MEDICINES
Author(s) -
Shaw R. J. S.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1979.tb00156.x
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , medicine , traditional medicine , anesthesia , computer science , data mining
Summary The accuracy of measurement of a 5‐ml dose of three liquids of different viscosity by medical and non‐medical subjects was investigated. Medical and non‐medical subjects did not differ significantly in their ability to measure accurately. A tendency to overfill the spoon with the most viscous liquid was observed and the variation within groups of individual measurements was disturbingly high.