Guilty, afraid, and alone - Struggling with medical error

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1682-1683

  Delbanco, Tom ^a,b   Bell, Sigall K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 35548994157     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp078104     Document Type: Article

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