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Use of medical emergency team (MET) responses to detect medical errors.
April 6, 2011
Braithwaite RS, Devita MA, Mahidhara R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13(4):255-259.
Through chart review, this study found that approximately one third of incidents triggering medical emergency team (MET) calls involved one or more medical errors. The researchers suggest that METs may be useful to identify errors.
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