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Medical Errors: A Nurses Role

Nurses have a genuine impact on patient safety. Studies have found a link between patient safety and RN staffing and an increase rate of error when the hospital nursing staff with a smaller proportion of RNs (Ramsey 2005). Other studies have shown that increasing the nurse to patient ratio by 1 can significantly impact the 30-day mortality in surgical...
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Clinical Knowledge Base Prevents Medical Errors

Author Nick van Terheyden, MD Chief Medical Officer, Philips Speech Recognition Systems Email: [email protected] Real-time availability of clinical information will improve patient safety Medical errors occur in any part of the treatment process and typically involve the wrong...
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Medical Errors: A Nurses Role