Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past.

Peter G. Brindley

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Patient safety and acute care medicine: lessons for the future, insights from the past.

May 25, 2011

Brindley PG. Crit Care. 2010;14(2):217.

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This brief review details how observations from engineering, cognitive psychology, and chess can inform patient safety efforts.

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