Medical device accident reporting: Does it improve patient safety?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 28, Issue , 1996, Pages 29-35

  Nobel, Joel J ^a  

^a ECRI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION; ADVERSE EFFECT; DESIGN VALIDATION; MEDICAL DEVICES; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROBLEM DEVICES;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; EQUIPMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EUROPEAN UNION; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030345810     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-872-4-29     Document Type: Article

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