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RATIONALE: Daily interprofessional (IP) rounds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) serve as a safety net for recognition of safety issues. Yet, the full effectiveness of identifying these issues is unknown. Our prior study has shown individual members of the IP team are poor in recognition of safety issues in the electronic health record (EHR). IP groups use the EHR dissimilarly and have a tendency to recognize safety issues in predictable domains. Through an EHR based simulation, we examined the effectiveness of IP collaboration during ICU rounds in the recognition of safety issues.