Shaping systems for better behavioral choices: Lessons learned from a fatal medication error

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 152-163

  Smetzer, Judy ^a   Baker, Christine ^b   Byrne, Frank D ^c   Cohen, Michael R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SAFE MEDICATION PRACTICES   (United States)

^b Quality and Safety Systems   (United States)

^c St Mary's Hospital Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICATION ERROR; PREGNANCY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 77952306244     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(10)36027-2     Document Type: Review

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