CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Legibility of doctors' handwriting: quantitative comparative study — BMJ
- Key
- lyons1998doctors-handwriting
- Authors
- Lyons, Ronan; Payne, Christopher; McCabe, Michael; Fielder, Colin
- Issued
- 1998-9-26
- Type
- article-journal
- Container
- BMJ
- Volume
- 317
- Issue
- 7162
- Pages
- 863-864
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.1136/bmj.317.7162.863",
"URL": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC31098/",
"page": "863-864",
"type": "article-journal",
"issue": "7162",
"title": "Legibility of doctors' handwriting: quantitative comparative study",
"author": [
{
"given": "Ronan",
"family": "Lyons"
},
{
"given": "Christopher",
"family": "Payne"
},
{
"given": "Michael",
"family": "McCabe"
},
{
"given": "Colin",
"family": "Fielder"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
1998,
9,
26
]
]
},
"volume": "317",
"container-title": "BMJ"
}
Claims
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Using optical character recognition software on handwriting from 92 Welsh health workers, the study found doctors' letters had higher error rates (median 7) than nurses and other health professionals (median 3) or administrative staff (median 4); numerals showed no significant difference.
"This study suggests that doctors, even when asked to be as neat as possible, produce handwriting that is worse than that of other professions."
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