Intensive care unit procedures: cost savings and patient safety
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Professional errors and patient safety in intensive cardiac care unit:
Abstract Introduction: Use of progressive technology, clinical skills and caring methods appropriate to critical situations of patient in intensive Cardiac Care Unit is probably related to professional errors and disorder in patient safety. There is a little data about this subject. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore professional errors and patient safety in Cardiac Care Unit. Meth...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc377