Commentary: Reducing diagnostic errors: Another role for checklists?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-281

  Winters, Bradford D ^a   Aswani, Monica S ^b   Pronovost, Peter J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 79952132572     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182082692     Document Type: Review

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