Bringing diagnosis into the quality and safety equations

JAMA

Volumn 308, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1211-1212

  Graber, Mark L ^a   Wachter, Robert M ^b   Cassel, Christine K ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATHY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COST CONTROL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITY CONTROL; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL ERROR;

EID: 84866544587     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.11913     Document Type: Short Survey

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