title: Executive summary: toward a taxonomy of nursing practice errors.
abstract: The Practice Breakdown Research Advisory Panel analyzed 21 case studies of nursing errors from nine state boards of nursing files to develop a taxonomy of nursing errors. Eight categories of nursing errors, representing a broad variety of possible errors and contributive or causative factors, were identified; causes for the error, at the system and practice responsibility levels, were also identified in each individual case.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doan-Johnson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000145:classification* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States