Evidence on interventions to reduce medical errors: An overview and recommendations for future research

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 325-334

  Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b   Lau, Joseph ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral interventions; Medical errors; Meta analyais; Randomized trials; Study design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; META-ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0035720358     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.00714.x     Document Type: Review

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