Attitudes of patients and care providers toward a surgical site marking policy

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-257

  Goldberg, Amanda E ^a   Harnish, Julie L ^a   Stegienko, Stacey ^a   Urbach, David R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Joint Commission; Qualitative research; Site marking; Universal Protocol; Wrong site surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN DIGNITY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURGICAL ERROR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INK; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TATTOOING;

EID: 70349595941     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350609340895     Document Type: Article

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