Profiles in Patient Safety: A "Perfect Storm" in the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 743-749

  Campbell, Samuel G ^a   Croskerry, Pat ^a   Bond, William F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive and affective error; diagnostic error; patient safety

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; METOPROLOL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEIZURES;

EID: 34447504797     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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