But we have a margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. What that means is if we kept taking samples, 95 percent of the time, we’ll get an estimate in that range of 46 to 52 percent.

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Nearly 12 percent of a study's monitored e-prescriptions contained an error, and omitted information was the most common error within computerized prescribing systems.