Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units.

Carolyn B. Harris; Melissa J. Krauss; Craig M. Coopersmith; Michael Avidan; Patricia A. Nast; Marin H. Kollef; Claiborne Dunagan; Victoria J. Fraser

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Patient safety event reporting in critical care: a study of three intensive care units.

March 21, 2007

Harris CB, Krauss MJ, Coopersmith CM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2007;35(4):1068-76.

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The investigators implemented a voluntary card-based error-reporting program and compared the results to those of an existing Web-based program. They found that reporting increased significantly with the card-based system.

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