Profiles in patient safety: When an error occurs

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 766-770

  Hobgood, Cherri ^a   Hevia, Armando ^a   Hinchey, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

error disclosure; medical error; patient safety

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 3042661988     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.11.023     Document Type: Article

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