Diagnostic error in a national incident reporting system in the UK

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1276-1281

  Sevdalis, Nick ^a,b   Jacklin, Rosamond ^a   Arora, Sonal ^a   Vincent, Charles A ^a   Thomson, Richard G ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adverse event; diagnostic error; incident reporting; NRLS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 78650626755     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01328.x     Document Type: Article

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