Medical errors after stroke: Preventable or inevitable?

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 542-543

  Rizzo, Matthew ^a   Glick, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FALLING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICATION ERROR; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICATION ERRORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33847215081     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000255798.06731.fd     Document Type: Editorial

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