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Legibility of doctors' handwriting is as good (or bad) as everyone else's — Quality and Safety in Health Care

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Key
schneider2006doctors-handwriting
Authors
Schneider, K. A.; Murray, C. W.; Shadduck, R. D.; Meyers, D. G.
Issued
2006-12
Type
article-journal
Container
Quality and Safety in Health Care
Volume
15
Issue
6
Pages
445
Raw CSL JSON
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  "DOI": "10.1136/qshc.2006.018911",
  "URL": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2464897/",
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  "type": "article-journal",
  "issue": "6",
  "title": "Legibility of doctors' handwriting is as good (or bad) as everyone else's",
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Claims

  1. A comparison of 140 right-handed participants from seven occupations (accountant, attorney, automobile technician, builder, engineer, doctor, scientist) writing a cursive sentence in under 17 seconds found no significant difference in legibility between doctors and the other occupations.
    "Our study agrees with Berwick and Winikoff that doctors' handwriting is no less legible than that of other occupations"
    Quote language: en
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