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- Elizabeth Mattox.
- Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA. eamattox@gmail.com
- Crit Care Nurse. 2012 Aug 1;32(4):60-8.
AbstractErrors 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 errors related to health care devices.
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