Preventing adverse events
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Preventing adverse events

Roseanne Shorthall Pseudonym, Hospital assessment unit in the West Midlands

ROSEANNE SHORTHALL reflects on a potentially adverse event that occurred when she was a nursing student to demonstrate how communication failures can hamper patient care

In 1999, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established to promote clinical effectiveness through best practice and the promotion among front line staff of evidence based guidelines.

Emergency Nurse. 15, 3, 26-28. doi: 10.7748/en2007.06.15.3.26.c4245

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