Double checking: a second look.

Tanya Hewitt; Samia Chreim; Alan J. Forster

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Double checking: a second look.

May 18, 2016

Hewitt T, Chreim S, Forster AJ. J Eval Clin Pract. 2016;22(2):267-74.

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Manual double checking of high-risk medication administration is a standard safety practice at most hospitals, despite limited data regarding its effectiveness. This qualitative study found that health care providers had differing conceptions of what double checking actually meant in practice, and they perceived that efficiency was impaired significantly by this process.

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