Researchers question the accuracy of dosing using cups commonly included with liquid drugs after finding 84% of parents measure the wrong amount of medicine and are four times more likely with cups than syringes to dose inaccurately.
The percentage of attempts with errors per parent when using a cup reached 43%, but 16.7% with a 0.2mL syringe and 16.2% with a 0.5mL oral syringe, according to a...