Trends and weekly and seasonal cycles in the rate of errors in the clinical management of hospitalized patients

Chronobiology International

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 947-954

  Buckley, David ^a   Bulger, David ^b  

^a Murrumbidgee Local Health District ^*  (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Epidemiology and detection; Health care quality improvement; Hospital medicine; Incident reporting; Temporal patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; PERIODICITY; SEASON; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; PERIODICITY; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84864241876     PISSN: 07420528     EISSN: 15256073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2012.672265     Document Type: Article

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