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Direct observation approach for detecting medication errors and adverse drug events in a pediatric intensive care unit.
August 26, 2011
Buckley MS, Erstad BL, Kopp BJ, et al. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2007;8(2):145-52.
This study measured adverse drug events and near misses by using trained observers to monitor pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) nurses in real time. The incidence of errors was higher than in a previous study, which used retrospective methods to detect errors.
