Lessons learned: use of event reporting by nurses to improve patient safety and quality.

Eileen Hession-Laband; Patricia Mantell

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Lessons learned: use of event reporting by nurses to improve patient safety and quality.

April 20, 2011

Hession-Laband E, Mantell P. J Pediatr Nurs. 2011;26(2):149-55.

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Nurses at a pediatric magnet hospital designed a quality improvement project that used voluntary error reports to identify and address patient safety problems.

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