Reducing medical errors and adverse events

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 447-463

  Pham, Julius Cuong ^a,b   Aswani, Monica S ^b   Rosen, Michael ^b   Lee, Heewon ^b   Huddle, Matthew ^b   Weeks, Kristina ^b   Pronovost, Peter J ^b,c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Diagnostic errors; Falls; Handoff errors; Hospital acquired infection; Medication errors; Surgical errors

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALLING; FOREIGN BODY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TEAMWORK; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862958699     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: 1545326X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-061410-121352     Document Type: Review

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