Page 16 - Medical error, adverse event & near misses
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Environmental / long working hours
Understaffing
• Understaffing is directly related to a higher risk of adverse events for patients, including medication
errors.
Higher nurse-to-patient ratios
• Increase of one patient in a nurse’s workload increased the risk of death of one patient in that
hospital.
