'Doing the right thing' after an adverse event

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1219, 2005, Pages

  Bismark, Marie ^a   Paterson, Ron ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FRACTURE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MORALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MORALS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 27244433579     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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