Patient safety: a casualty of target success?

International Journal of Public Sector Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 416-430

  Dermot Williams, Mike ^a   Smart, Andi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health care; National Health Service; Patients; Risk analysis; Safety; Targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954628568     PISSN: 09513558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09513551011058457     Document Type: Article

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