Human error in perspective: The patient safety movement

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-17

  Billings, Charles E ^a,b   Woods, David D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REVIEW; SAFETY;

EID: 0035152695     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2001.01.839     Document Type: Review

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2. Safe operation as a social construct
3. To err is human: Building a safer health system
4. The Institute of Medicine report on medical errors - Could it do harm?
5. Deaths due to medical errors are exaggerated in Institute of Medicine report
6. Institute of medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated
7. Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety