Open AccessAn analysis of patient safety incident reports describing injuries to staff working in critical care in the North West of England between 2009 and 2013
Author(s) -
Antony Thomas,
Daniel Horner,
Robert Taylor
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the intensive care society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2057-360X
pISSN - 1751-1437
DOI - 10.1177/1751143715574510
Subject(s) - north west , medicine , incident report , medical emergency , nursing , family medicine , forensic engineering , engineering , geography , physical geography
Critical care environments are potentially high-risk areas for staff harm due to procedural demand and increased incidence of delirium/dependence. The principal types of harm and temporal trends have not yet been quantified.
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