Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 931-939

  Seiden, Samuel C ^a,c   Barach, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748763555     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.9.931     Document Type: Article

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