Charting Errors in a Teaching Hospital

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 268-271

  Ratnapalan, Savithiri ^a   Brown, Kristen ^a   Cieslak, Peter ^a   Cohen Silver, Justine ^a   Jarvis, Anna ^a   Mounstephen, William ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

academic year; audit and reminders; charting errors; medical record keeping; new residents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84858072805     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3182494fb8     Document Type: Article

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