Measuring patient safety - Why and how?;Måling af patientsikkerhed - Hvorfor og hvordan?

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 171, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1674-1677

  Kristensen, Solvejg ^a   Mainz, Jan ^a   Bartels, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD;

DENMARK; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67049100219     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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