Articles about the Color Coded Kids System
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Broselow-Luten Color Coding System Articles:
Independent Studies:
- Prospective Assessment of Guidelines for Determining Appropriate Depth of Endotracheal Tube Placement in Children.
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2005
- Mission Impossible: Minimising the Terror of Paediatric Resuscitation for Staff in the ED
Accident and Emergency Nursing, 13, 24-28 (2005)
- Prospective Observational Study on the Incidence of Medication Errors During Simulated Resuscitation in a Paediatric Emergency Department
British Medical Journal, December 2004
- Does a Color-Coded Method for Measuring Acetaminophen Doses Reduce the Likelihood of Dosing Error?
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, July 2004
- Evaluation of a Method to Reduce Over-the-Counter Medication Dosing Error
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, July 2004
- Effect of an Intervention Standardization System on Pediatric Dosing and Equipment Size Determination
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, March 2003
- Improved Pediatric Multidetector Body CT Using a Size-Based Color-Coded Format
American Journal of Radiology, 178:721-726 (2002)
- How Reliable is Length-Based Determination of Body Weight and Tracheal Tube Size in the Paediatric Age Group? The Broselow Tape Reconsidered
British Journal of Anaesthesia, Vol. 88, No. 2, 283-285 (2002)
- Utilizing Simulation to Compare the Standard Pediatric Code Cart With a Pediatric Code Cart Based on the Broselow Tape
Pediatric Patient Safety:
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- Child's Death Highlights Need for Drug Error Prevention
Anesthesiology News, April 2002
- Vital Signs Licenses Pediatric Safety System to GE Medical
Vital Signs, Inc. Press Release, November 2001
- Medicine with a Safety Net
DukeMedNews, June 2001
- Fatal Medication Errors
ABCNews.com, April 2001
- US Study Finds Medication Errors Common Among Hospitalized Children
C-Health.com, April 2001
- Treating Pediatric Emergencies: "Color-Coding" Kids Saves Precious Minutes
Risk Management Briefings from ReciprocalGroup.com, July 2001
- Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events in Pediatric Inpatients
Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, 2114-2120 (2001)
- Color-Coding for Children Saves Precious Time in Emergency Room
CharlotteObserver.com, October 2000
- National Summit on Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research-Additional Statement
American Academy of Pediatrics, September 2000
- Rainbow Care - The Broselow-Luten System Color-Coded Zones for Pediatric Emergencies and Implications for Universal Application
Presentation by Robert C. Luten, MD, November 1998
- Pediatric Medicine Statistics
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