Resident Perceptions of Medical Errors in the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1318-1324

  Schenkel, Stephen M ^a,d   Khare, Rahul K ^a   Rosenthal, Marilynn M ^b   Sutcliffe, Kathleen M ^c   Lewton, Elizabeth L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c Ross School of Business   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Medical error; Residents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT;

EID: 0346753466     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00559-1     Document Type: Article

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