Patient safety. Safety technology: solutions or experiments?
The emphasis on technology in improving safety in health care has been pervasive.The real problem with safety technology applications is not so much that they possess undesirable side effects but rather that these side effects have been so difficult to discover, characterize, and assess.Nurses play...
| Published in: | Nursing Economic$ Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 80 - 83 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Mar/Apr2002
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | The emphasis on technology in improving safety in health care has been pervasive.The real problem with safety technology applications is not so much that they possess undesirable side effects but rather that these side effects have been so difficult to discover, characterize, and assess.Nurses play an integral role in this discovery and assessment process leading to a safer health care delivery system. |
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