Human error in health care systems: Bibliography

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-117

  Dhillon, B S ^a   Rajendran, Muthuraman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care systems; Human error; Human reliability; Medical devices; Medical equipment; Medical error

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERRORS; HEALTH CARE;

HUMAN ERROR; HUMAN RELIABILITY; MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL ERROR;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0038270640     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539303001019     Document Type: Article

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