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=== Competency, education, and training === Variations in healthcare provider training & experience<ref name=cause>{{cite journal |last1=Neale |first1=Graham |last2=Woloshynowych |first2=Maria |last3=Vincent |first3=Charles |title=Exploring the causes of adverse events in NHS hospital practice |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=94 |issue=7 |pages=322β30 |date=July 2001 |pmc=1281594 |pmid=11418700|doi=10.1177/014107680109400702 }}</ref><ref name="pmid2013929" /> and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Michael L. Millenson |year=2003 |title=The Silence |journal=Health Affairs |volume=22 |pages=103β112 |doi=10.1377/hlthaff.22.2.103 |pmid=12674412 |issue=2|s2cid=40037135 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Henneman |first=Elizabeth A. |date=1 October 2007 |title=Unreported Errors in the Intensive Care Unit, A Case Study of the Way We Work |journal=Critical Care Nurse |volume=27 |pages=27β34 |url=http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/full/27/5/27 |access-date=2008-03-23 |pmid=17901458 |issue=5 |doi=10.4037/ccn2007.27.5.27 |archive-date=October 13, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013050913/http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/full/27/5/27 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The so-called [[July effect]] occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.<ref name="Phillips & Barker">{{cite journal |author1=Phillips DP |author2=Barker GE |title=A July Spike in Fatal Medication Errors: A Possible Effect of New Medical Residents |journal=J Gen Intern Med |volume=25 |issue=8 |pages=774β779|date=May 2010 |pmid=20512532 |doi=10.1007/s11606-010-1356-3 |pmc=2896592}}</ref><ref name=amednews1>{{cite journal |last1=Krupa |first1=Carolyne |title=New residents linked to July medication errors |journal=American Medical News |date=21 June 2010 |volume=6 |issue=21 |url=https://insights.ovid.com/american-medical-news/ammn/2010/06/210/new-residents-linked-july-medication-errors/14/00000476 |access-date=September 8, 2019 |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021103522/https://insights.ovid.com/american-medical-news/ammn/2010/06/210/new-residents-linked-july-medication-errors/14/00000476 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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