What are we doing when we double check?

Yvonne Pfeiffer¹, Chantal Zimmermann², David L B Schwappach^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Research Department, Patient Safety Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland Pfeiffer@patientensicherheit.ch.
² Research Department, Patient Safety Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Editorial

Yvonne Pfeiffer et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 Jul.

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. 2020 Jul;29(7):536-540.

doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009680. Epub 2020 Feb 18.

Yvonne Pfeiffer¹, Chantal Zimmermann², David L B Schwappach^{2

3}

¹ Research Department, Patient Safety Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland Pfeiffer@patientensicherheit.ch.
² Research Department, Patient Safety Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Keywords: human error; human factors; medication safety; patient safety; quality improvement methodologies.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Effectiveness of double checking to reduce medication administration errors: a systematic review.
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