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Effect Of A Voice Recognition System On Paediatric Outpatient Medication Errors, Angela Nyangore Migowa
Effect Of A Voice Recognition System On Paediatric Outpatient Medication Errors, Angela Nyangore Migowa
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Background: Medication errors have potential to cause harm and death; especially children who are three times more vulnerable than adults. Risk of medication errors is higher in out- patient settings due to a stressful work environment with less familiarity of individual patients. This problem in sub-Saharan Africa is however largely undetermined. A Voice Recognition System that converts verbal messages into text and stores it in a database in a retrievable format could impact on reduction of medication errors.
Objectives: The primary objective was to compare medication prescription and dispensing errors in written prescriptions with those from a Voice …