Medical devices and patient safety.

Abstract:

:Errors related to health care devices are not well understood. Nurses in intensive care and progressive care environments can benefit from understanding manufacturer-related error and device-use error, the principles of human factors engineering, and the steps that can be taken to reduce risk of errors related to health care devices.

journal_name

Crit Care Nurse

journal_title

Critical care nurse

authors

Mattox E

doi

10.4037/ccn2012925

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-08-01 00:00:00

pages

60-8

issue

4

eissn

0279-5442

issn

1940-8250

pii

32/4/60

journal_volume

32

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