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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Pharm Pract. 2015 Aug 27;24(1):30–39. doi: 10.1111/ijpp.12206

Table 2.

Types of omission, additions and substitution

Medication names Medication dosage Function of
medication
Time to take medications (e.g. words such
as breakfast, dinner, evening)




Omission
(number times
interpreter
omitted
medication
name/total #
pharmacist said)
Addition
(number times
interpreter added
medication
name/total #
pharmacist said)
Substitution
(number times
interpreter
substituted
medication
name/total #
pharmacist said)
Omission
(number times
interpreter
omitted
medication
dosage/total #
pharmacist said)
Addition
(number times
interpreter added
medication
dosage/total
number
pharmacist said)
Substitution
(number of times
interpreter
substituted
medication
dosage/total
number
pharmacist said)
Omission
(number of times
interpreter
omitted
function of
medication/total
number
pharmacist said)
Omission
(number
of times
interpreter
omitted
word/total
number
pharmacist said)
Addition
(number of
times interpreter
added word/
total number
pharmacist said)
Substitution
(number
of times
interpreter
substituted
word/total
number
pharmacist said)
Interpreter 1 1/5 1/5 1/5 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/5 4/7 5/7 6/7

Interpreter 2 0/9 0/9 0/9 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/5 4/9 2/9 5/9

Interpreter 3 4/6 0/6 0/6 2/3 0/3 0/3 0/4 1/3 1/3 1/3

Interpreter 4 5/8 0/8 0/8 0/0 0/0 0/0 1/4 1/8 1/8 8/8

Interpreter 5 0/8 0/8 0/8 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 2/7 0/7 4/7

Interpreter 6 7/7 0/7 0/7 0/0 1/0 0/0 0/0 7/7 2/7 2/7

Total 17/47 (29.8%) 1/43 (2.3%) 1/43 (2.3%) 3/8 (37.5%) 3/7 (42.9%) 1/7 (42.9%) 1/19 (5.3%) 19/41 (46.3%) 11/41 (26.8%) 26/41 (63.4%)