Incident reporting at a tertiary care hospital in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Patient Safety

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-87

  Arabi, Yaseen ^a,b   Alamry, Ahmed ^b,c,d   Al Owais, Souzan M ^c   Al Dorzi, Hasan ^d   Noushad, Seema ^d   Taher, Saadi ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING ABDULLAH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^d National Guard Health Affairs ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Administration; Critical care; Culture; Health care; Hospital information systems; Incident report; Intensive care units; Medical errors; Quality assurance; Quality control; Safety culture; Saudi Arabia; Systems analysis; Voluntary programs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MANDATORY REPORTING; METHODOLOGY; SAFETY; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICS;

COMMUNICATION; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MANDATORY REPORTING; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84861457685     PISSN: 15498417     EISSN: 15498425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PTS.0b013e31824badb7     Document Type: Review

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