Emergency department checklist: an innovation to improve safety in emergency care

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK.
² Department of Health and Social Sciences, Nursing and Midwidery, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Emma Redfern et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2018.

. 2018 Sep 26;7(3):e000325.

doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2018-000325. eCollection 2018.

¹ Emergency Department, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK.
² Department of Health and Social Sciences, Nursing and Midwidery, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

No abstract available

Keywords: checklists; emergency department; patient safety.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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