The patient safety movement will help, not harm, quality [4]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 326-327

  Wachter, Robert M ^a   Shojania, Kaveh G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY;

EID: 4043154123     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-141-4-200408170-00027     Document Type: Letter

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3. Altman LK. The doctor's world: getting to the core of mistakes in medicine. The New York Times. 2000;29 February:D1.
4. Wachter RM, Shojania KG. Internal Bleeding: The Truth behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. New York: Rugged Land; 2004.