Medical errors and emergency medicine: Will the difficult questions be asked, and answered? [2]

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 910-911

  Feldman, James A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

EID: 0041919521     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.8.910     Document Type: Letter

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