Staff attitudes about event reporting and patient safety culture in hospital transfusion services

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1934-1942

  Sorra, Joann ^a   Nieva, Veronica ^b   Fastman, Barbara Rabin ^b   Kaplan, Harold ^b   Schreiber, George ^b   King, Melissa ^b  

^a WESTAT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITAL TRANSFUSION SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50849138818     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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