Physician implicit review to identify preventable errors during in-hospital cardiac arrest

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-90

  Jain, Renuka ^a   Kuhn, Latoya ^c   Repaskey, William ^b   Chan, Paul S ^d   Kronick, Steven L ^a   Flanders, Scott ^b   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEFIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KAPPA STATISTICS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 78651313000     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.475     Document Type: Article

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