Using lean to improve medication administration safety: In search of the "perfect dose"

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 195-204

  Ching, Joan M ^a   Long, Christina ^a   Williams, Barbara L ^a   Blackmore, C Craig ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; NURSE'S ROLE; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876892751     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(13)39026-6     Document Type: Article

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