Making patients safer: Nurses' responses to patient safety alerts

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 567-575

  Lankshear, Annette ^a   Lowson, Karen ^b   Harden, Jane ^a   Lowson, Paula ^b   Saxby, Ruth C ^b  

^a School of Nursing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical research report; Errors; Multi methods; Nurses; Patient safety; Risk management; Safety alerts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; NURSES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51149098098     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04741.x     Document Type: Article

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