Addressing the taboo of medical error through IGBOs: I got burnt once!

Anda Dumitrescu; Anthony Ryan

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Addressing the taboo of medical error through IGBOs: I got burnt once!

June 4, 2014

Dumitrescu A, Ryan A. Eur J Pediatr. 2014;173(4):503-8.

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Nearly all of the pediatric nurses and physicians interviewed for this qualitative study could recall at least one near miss or preventable adverse event that they were directly involved in and were able to describe several ways in which the incident influenced their subsequent practice.

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