Enhancing patient safety with intelligent intravenous infusion devices: Experience in a specialty cardiac hospital

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-176

  Wood, Jacqueline L ^a   Burnette, Jeremy S ^a  

^a St Vincent Heart Center of Indiana   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Infusion pumps; Intravenous systems; Patient safety; Safety software

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST CONTROL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFUSION SYSTEM; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857367142     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: 15273288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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