Development of an online morbidity, mortality, and near-miss reporting system to identify patterns of adverse events in surgical patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 305-311

  Bilimoria, Karl Y ^a   Kmiecik, Thomas E ^a   DaRosa, Debra A ^a   Halverson, Amy ^a   Eskandari, Mark K ^a   Bell Jr , Richard H ^b   Soper, Nathaniel J ^a   Wayne, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Board of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; DISABILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 65349092872     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.5     Document Type: Article

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