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Voluntarily reported emergency department errors.
November 30, 2005
Henneman PL, Blank FSJ, Smithline HA, et al. J Patient Saf. 2008;1(3):126-132.
The investigators studied an incentive-based voluntary reporting system in an emergency department and found that approximately half of errors were recovered, mainly by nurses, and that unrecovered errors impacted patients, most often with a delay in hospital stay.
