Wrong tooth extraction: Root cause analysis

Quintessence International

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 869-872

  Peleg, Oren ^a   Givot, Navot ^a,b   Halamish Shani, Tali ^a   Taicher, Shlomo ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Medical Risk Management Company   (Israel)

Author keywords

Tooth extraction; Treatment error; Wrong tooth extraction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ISRAEL; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LIABILITY; ISRAEL; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; TOOTH EXTRACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952200261     PISSN: 00336572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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