Enhancing Safety Reporting in Adult Ambulatory Oncology With a Clinician Champion: A Practice Innovation

Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-210

  Weingart, Saul N ^a   Price, Jessica ^a   Duncombe, Deborah ^a   Connor, Maureen ^a   Conley, Karen ^b   Conlin, Genevieve J ^b   Sullivan, Amy M ^b   Powell, Mark ^c   Ponte, Patricia Reid ^c   Bierer, Barbara E ^c  

^a Biostatistics and Computational Biology   (United States)

^b South Shore Hospital   (United States)

^c Center for Patient Safety   (United States)

Author keywords

Incident reporting; Medical errors; Safety culture; Service quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGY NURSING; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSING STAFF; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY;

EID: 69449107599     PISSN: 10573631     EISSN: 15505065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0b013e318195168d     Document Type: Article

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