Using snowball sampling method with nurses to understand medication administration errors

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 559-569

  Sheu, Shuh Jen ^a   Wei, Ien Lan ^a   Chen, Ching Huey ^b   Yu, Shu ^a   Tang, Fu In ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drug administration errors; Nurse; Nursing; Patient safety; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSES; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 58349109969     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02048.x     Document Type: Article

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