Role of registered nurses in error prevention, discovery and correction.

A. E. Rogers; G. E. Dean; W-T Hwang; L. D. Scott

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Role of registered nurses in error prevention, discovery and correction.

April 16, 2008

Rogers AE, Dean GE, Hwang W-T, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17(2):117-21.

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Daily logbooks kept by critical care nurses revealed a wide variety of errors in intensive care unit patients, ranging from medication errors to procedural errors.

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