Pitfalls of adverse event reporting in paediatric cardiac intensive care
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Pitfalls of adverse event reporting in paediatric cardiac intensive care.
AIMS To evaluate the pitfalls of incident reporting in a complex medical environment. METHODS Retrospective review of 211 incident reports in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Two adverse event reporting databases were compared: database A (DA), the hospital's official reporting system, is non-anonymous and reports are predominantly made by nurses; database B (DB) is anonymous ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.040154