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Rebecca Schnall1, Elaine Larson, Patricia W Stone
1Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY 10032, USA. Rb897@columbia.edu
Abstract:
Despite more than a decade of patient safety initiatives in our health care system, nurses (N = 172) identified a large number of safety issues in the ambulatory care setting, including issues in their own practice (50.7% of the encounters), feeling rushed or hurried (34.8% of encounters), and being interrupted (27.0% of encounters). Greater patient complexity was a significant predictor of identifying a diagnostic or management and treatment issue. The presence of an electronic health record was not related to reporting of a patient safety issue.
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