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Making patients safer: nurses' responses to patient safety alerts.

September 24, 2008

Lankshear A, Lowson K, Harden J, et al. J Adv Nurs. 2008;63(6).

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This study demonstrated that simply designing "system" safeguards fails to prevent errors in subsequent monitoring and implementation. Investigators used three safety alerts, including latex allergy, as markers of how well these alerts were being adopted in practice by bedside nurses.

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