Error proofing healthcare: an analysis of low cost, easy to implement and effective solutions
Leadership in health servicesPublished 24 April 2013
Jamison V. Kovach, Lee Revere, Ken Black
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This study aims to provide healthcare managers with a meaningful synthesis of state of the art knowledge on error proofing strategies to provide a foundation for understanding medical error prevention, to support the strategic deployment of errorProofing strategies, and facilitate the development and implementation of new error Proofing strategies.
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Purpose – This study aims to provide healthcare managers with a meaningful synthesis of state of the art knowledge on error proofing strategies. The purpose is to provide a foundation for understanding medical error prevention, to support the strategic deployment of error proofing strategies, and facilitate the development and implementation of new error proofing strategies.
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