Improving medication management through the redesign of the hospital code cart medication drawer.

Justin B Rousek; M. Susan Hallbeck

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Improving medication management through the redesign of the hospital code cart medication drawer.

January 18, 2012

Rousek JB, Hallbeck MS. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 2011;53(6).

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A hospital code blue resuscitation cart that had been redesigned according to ergonomics principles provided easier and more reliable access to medications during simulated resuscitation scenarios.

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