Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting.

Elizabeth A. Henneman; Fidela S J Blank; Anna Gawlinski; Philip L. Henneman

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Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting.

September 27, 2016

Henneman EA, Blank FSJ, Gawlinski A, et al. Appl Nurs Res. 2006;19(2):70-7.

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The investigators held focus groups to assess how emergency room nurses identify, recover, and correct medical errors. The authors share major themes of methods used in identifying and interrupting errors.

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