Patient safety in the critical care environment.

Peter J. Rossi; Charles E. Edmiston

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Patient safety in the critical care environment.

December 12, 2012

Rossi PJ, Edmiston CE. Surg Clin North Am. 2012;92(6):1369-86.

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This commentary discusses areas of risk in the intensive care unit along with interventions to mitigate them, including isolation precautions to lower infection rates and staffing intensivists to improve patient outcomes.

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