Identifying risk: The limitations of incident reporting

Canadian Nurse

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 12-14

  Burkoski, Vanessa ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX   (United States)

^b Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation   (Canada)

^c WINDSOR REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Errors; Incident reporting; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NURSE'S ROLE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947207971     PISSN: 00084581     EISSN: 14925494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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