Medical errors recovered by critical care nurses.

Patricia C. Dykes; Jeffrey M. Rothschild; Ann Hurley

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Medical errors recovered by critical care nurses.

June 2, 2010

Dykes PC, Rothschild JM, Hurley A. J Nurs Adm. 2010;40(5):241-6.

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This survey of critical care nurses revealed that nurses witness and are involved in preventing a wide variety of errors, nearly one-fourth of which were considered potentially lethal.

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