Do you know the frequency of errors in your intensive care unit?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1277-1278

  Graf, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chart review; Errors; Incident monitoring; Intensive care unit; Organization; Prevention; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ERROR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037390880     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000060017.61184.3C     Document Type: Editorial

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