Corrigendum: Adverse events in a Tunisian hospital: Results of a retrospective cohort study (International Journal for Quality in Health Care (2010) 22:5 (380–385)DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzq040);Adverse events in a Tunisian hospital: Results of a retrospective cohort study

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 380-385

  Letaief, Mondher ^a   El Mhamdi, Sana ^a   El Asady, Riham ^b   Siddiqi, Sameen ^b   Abdullatif, Ahmed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b WHO/EMRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Medical errors; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TUNISIA;

EID: 77956936980     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx015     Document Type: Erratum

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