From safe systems to patient safety

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 157, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-3

  Aarts, Jos ^a   Nøhr, Christian ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Health informatics; patient safety; socio technical approach

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; HEALTH INFORMATICS; HUMAN ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIO-TECHNICAL APPROACH;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 77954476433     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-569-3-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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