Effect of an anonymous reporting system on near-miss and harmful medical error reporting in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Mary Jo C Grant; Gitte Larsen

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Effect of an anonymous reporting system on near-miss and harmful medical error reporting in a pediatric intensive care unit.

July 4, 2007

Grant MJC, Larsen G. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22(3):213-21.

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The authors describe a paper-based reporting initiative that effectively captured adverse event and near miss data and provided important information about patient safety issues frequently encountered by frontline clinicians.

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