Safety climate reduces medication and dislodgement errors in routine intensive care practice

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 391-398

  Valentin, Andreas ^a   Schiffinger, Michael ^b   Steyrer, Johannes ^b   Huber, Clemens ^b   Strunk, Guido ^c,d  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c Department of Statistics   (Austria)

^d TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Medical error; Patient safety; Quality of health care; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUSTRIA; CATHETER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRAINAGE TUBE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SWITZERLAND; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84884212984     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2764-0     Document Type: Article

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