Closed claims' analysis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-276

  Metzner, Julia ^a   Posner, Karen L ^a   Lam, Michelle S ^a   Domino, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

airway management; burns; claims analysis; medication therapy management; obstetric anaesthesia; outcomes; outcomes research; perioperative complications; regional anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OPIATE; PROPOFOL;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; BACKACHE; BURN; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EYE INJURY; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; MEDICATION ERROR; NERVE INJURY; NEWBORN DISEASE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; REVIEW; SEDATION; STROKE; TREND STUDY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PAIN;

EID: 79955823533     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2011.02.007     Document Type: Review

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