A structured approach to improving patient safety: Lessons from a public safety-net system

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mehler, Philip S ^a   Colwell, Christopher B ^a   Stahel, Philip F ^a,b  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 83755220587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-5-32     Document Type: Editorial

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