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Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units.
Harris CB, Krauss MJ, Coopersmith CM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35:1068-1076.

The investigators implemented a voluntary card-based error-reporting program and compared the results to those of an existing Web-based program. They found that reporting increased significantly with the card-based system.
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