A comparative analysis of incident reporting lag times in academic medical centres in Japan and the USA

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Regenbogen, S E ^a,b   Hirose, M ^a,c,d,g   Imanaka, Y ^d   Oh, E H ^d,e   Fukuda, H ^d   Gawande, A A ^a,f   Takemura, T ^c   Yoshihara, H ^f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Hyupsung University   (South Korea)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g SHIMANE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERROR; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERRORS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650325744     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: 14753901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2008.029215     Document Type: Article

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