Editorial 1. Making errors: Admitting them and learning from them

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-217

  Woods, Ian ^a  

^a NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; VINCRISTINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; LEARNING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICATION ERROR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; UNITED KINGDOM; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 14644406795     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04149.x     Document Type: Editorial

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