Creating a safer health care system: Finding the constraint

JAMA

Volumn 294, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2906-2908

  Pauker, Stephen G ^a   Zane, Ellen M ^a   Salem, Deeb N ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

EID: 28944441946     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.22.2906     Document Type: Editorial

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