A human factors engineering conceptual framework of nursing workload and patient safety in intensive care units.

Pascale Carayon; Ayse P. Gurses

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A human factors engineering conceptual framework of nursing workload and patient safety in intensive care units.

September 10, 2009

Carayon P, Gurses AP. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2005;21(5):284-301.

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The authors explore intensive care unit nursing workload and its impact on patient safety. They outline a conceptual approach to reducing pressures at the situational level to decrease opportunities for error.

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