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Title
Association of interruptions with an increased risk and severity of medication administration errors.
Authors
Westbrook, Johanna I; Woods, Amanda; Rob, Marilyn I; Dunsmuir, William T M; Day, Richard O
Abstract
Interruptions have been implicated as a cause of clinical errors, yet, to our knowledge, no empirical studies of this relationship exist. We tested the hypothesis that interruptions during medication administration increase errors.
Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2010, Vol 170, Issue 8, p683