The Sorry Works Coalition: Making the case for full disclosure

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 344-350

  Wojcieszak, Doug ^a   Banja, John ^a,b   Houk, Carole ^c  

^a Sorry Works Coalition   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c International Toxicology Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALPRACTICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ATTITUDE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HEALTH CARE COALITIONS; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 33745458687     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1553-7250(06)32044-2     Document Type: Article

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