The safety of emergency medicine. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The safety of emergency medicine. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published November 2015

The safety of emergency medicine.

Ramlakhan S, Qayyum H, Burke D, Brown R. Emerg Med J. 2015 Nov 3; [Epub ahead of print].

Emergency medicine is considered a high-risk environment, but little research exists to confirm this assumption. This review explores the unique challenges to patient safety in emergency care, weaknesses in the evidence base, and interventions that show promise for reducing errors in this setting.

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