Looking for Medical Injuries Where the Light Is Bright

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1917-1919

  Weingart, Saul N ^a,b   Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SAFETY;

EID: 0141957215     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.14.1917     Document Type: Editorial

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