Using risk management files to identify and address causative factors associated with adverse events in pediatrics

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 625-631

  Hain, Paul D ^a,c   Pichert, James W ^b   Hickson, Gerald B ^b   Bledsoe, Sandra H ^c   Hamming, David ^c   Hathaway, Jacob ^c   Nguyen, Carolyn ^c  

^a Office of Risk and Insurance Management   (United States)

^b Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Medical error; Patient safety; Pediatrics; Quality improvement; Risk management

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAW SUIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICATION ERROR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 34848821909     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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