Attitudes of doctors and nurses towards incident reporting: A qualitative analysis

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 36-39

  Kingston, Marilyn J ^a   Evans, Sue M ^a,b   Smith, Brian J ^a   Berry, Jesia G ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MOTIVATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 3242778734     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06158.x     Document Type: Article

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