Safety alerts: Checking placement of nasogastric feeding tubes in adults (interpretation of x ray images): Summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency

BMJ

Volumn 342, Issue 7806, 2011, Pages

  Lamont, Tara ^a   Beaumont, Catherine ^a   Fayaz, Alan ^b   Healey, Frances ^a   Huehns, Tanya ^a   Law, Robert ^c   Lecko, Caroline ^a   Panesar, Sukhmeet ^a   Surkitt Parr, Michael ^a   Stroud, Mike ^d   Warner, Bruce ^a  

^a NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b London Deanery   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; GASTROSTOMY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JEJUNOSTOMY TUBE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NOSE FEEDING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH TUBE;

EID: 79955955096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d2586     Document Type: Article

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