Healthcare epidemiology is the paradigm for patient safety

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-51

  Scheckler, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEGLIGENCE; PATIENT CARE; SAFETY;

EID: 0036167945     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503449     Document Type: Article

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