Reviewing deaths in the emergency department: Deaths in the department or deaths within 48 h

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-123

  Clunas, Sally ^b   Whitaker, Richard ^c,e   Ritchie, Nicole ^c   Upton, Jeanette ^d   Isbister, Geoffrey K ^a,c,f  

^a NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Emergency Department   (Australia)

^d CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit process; Death; Medical error; Root cause analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRENDS;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65349083134     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2009.01166.x     Document Type: Article

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