Medical errors in the intensive care unit: Can we find the black box before the patient crashes?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2553-2554

  Seoane, Leonardo ^a   Taylor, David E ^b  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crew resource management; Medical decision making; Medical errors; Performance improvement; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE; OPERATING ROOM; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STRESS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT CARE TEAM;

EID: 0142025037     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000090002.87223.C7     Document Type: Editorial

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