Strategies for improving patient safety: linking task type to error type.

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Strategies for improving patient safety: linking task type to error type.

February 22, 2012

Mattox EA. Crit Care Nurse. 2012;32(1):52-78.

This commentary discusses types of errors associated with specific nursing tasks to illustrate how cognitive factors can affect safety.

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