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Software system helps cut down on treatment errors - Bizjournals - 08/25/2008 06:08

The instructions for Betsy Lehman’s breast cancer treatment were ambiguous: “Cyclophosphamide 4 grams per square meter of body surface area over four days.” A doctor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston read the dosage as 4 grams per day, rather than the intended 4 grams spread over four days.


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