Reliability science: Reducing the error rate in your practice

Family Practice Management

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 59-63

  Elgert, Stephen ^a  

^a New Hampshire Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444454042     PISSN: 10695648     EISSN: 15311929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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