Improving patient safety using the sterile cockpit principle during medication administration: a collaborative, unit-based project.

Amanda M Fore; Gary L Sculli; Doreen Albee; Julia Neily

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Improving patient safety using the sterile cockpit principle during medication administration: a collaborative, unit-based project.

February 13, 2013

Fore AM, Sculli GL, Albee D, et al. J Nurs Manag. 2013;21(1):106-11.

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Applying sterile cockpit principles during medication administration may have led to the substantial decrease in distractions and medication error rates observed in this study.

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