Patient safety in the dialysis facility

Blood Purification

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-21

  Kliger, Alan S ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialyzer errors; Patient and Quality Improvement Act; Root cause analyses

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; BLEEDING; DIALYSIS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT; RENAL DIALYSIS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 29244492326     PISSN: 02535068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089431     Document Type: Short Survey

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