Patient Safety. Medical Devices and Patient Safety.

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 err...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Critical Care Nurse Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 60 - 69
Main Author: Mattox, Elizabeth
Format: tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Aug2012
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost