Barriers to adverse event and error reporting in anesthesia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 604-614

  Heard, Gaylene C ^a   Sanderson, Penelope M ^b   Thomas, Rowan D ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; ANESTHESIA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PILOT PROJECTS; RISK MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857655132     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31822649e8     Document Type: Article

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