Patient safety in women's health-care: professional colleges can make a difference. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada MOREOB program

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-579

  Milne, J K ^b   Lalonde, A B ^a  

^a The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

communities of practice (CoPs); culture change; high reliability organizations (HROs); MOREOB; patient safety; reflective learning; systems theory

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MODEL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CANADA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; OBSTETRICS; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PREGNANCY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 34547122897     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2007.01.013     Document Type: Review

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