Factors influencing perioperative nurses' error reporting preferences.

Sherry Espin; Glenn Regehr; Wendy Levinson; Ross Baker; Christina Biancucci; Lorelei A Lingard

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Factors influencing perioperative nurses' error reporting preferences.

March 28, 2007

Espin S, Regehr G, Levinson W, et al. AORN J. 2007;85(3):527-43.

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The researchers presented perioperative nurses with four scenarios to assess their identification of errors and whether they would report them. The investigators found that perceived scope of practice greatly influenced reporting preference.

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