Incident reporting in nurse-led national telephone triage in Sweden: The reported errors reveal a pattern that needs to be broken

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 243-247

  Ernesäter, Annica ^a,b   Engström, Maria ^a,b   Holmström, Inger ^a   Winblad, Ulrika ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; SWEDEN; TELECONSULTATION; TELENURSING;

COMMUNICATION; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN; TELENURSING; TRIAGE;

EID: 77954882765     PISSN: 1357633X     EISSN: 17581109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jtt.2009.090813     Document Type: Article

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