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Exploring the human factors of prescribing errors in paediatric intensive care units.

May 20, 2019

Sutherland A, Ashcroft DM, Phipps D. Arch Dis Child. 2019;104(6):588-595.

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Using clinical vignettes, investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with those prescribing medications in a pediatric intensive care unit to better understand human factors contributing to prescribing errors. They found that cognitive load was the main contributor to such errors.

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