Patient safety data: How it can improve our performance

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 346-348

  Jewell, Mark L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; BREAST AUGMENTATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DRUG METABOLISM; EDITORIAL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LIPOSUCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344576254     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2004.05.005     Document Type: Editorial

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