Patient concerns about medical errors in emergency departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-64

  Burroughs, Thomas E ^a,b   Waterman, Amy D ^a   Gallagher, Thomas H ^a   Waterman, Brian ^a   Adams, David ^a   Jeffe, Donna B ^a   Dunagan, William Claiborne ^a   Garbutt, Jane ^a   Cohen, Max M ^a   Cira, Jane ^a   Inguanzo, Joe ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; medical errors; patient concerns; patient safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19944418216     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.08.052     Document Type: Article

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