Patient safety in primary care: A survey of general practitioners in the Netherlands

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gaal, Sander ^a   Verstappen, Wim ^a   Wensing, Michel ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MONITORING; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD; NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DRUG MONITORING; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77249109859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-21     Document Type: Article

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