Stochastic analysis of health care professional - Patient interactions subject to human error

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Optimization

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 145-150

  Dhillon, B S ^a   Rajendran, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care; Health care professional; Human error; Models; Probability

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HUMAN ERRORS; MEAN TIME TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL'S ERROR (MTTHPE); MEAN TIME TO HUMAN DEATH (MTTHD);

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33751222903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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