Personal accountability in healthcare: Searching for the right balance

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 176-180

  Wachter, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ARTERY DISSECTION; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN HERNIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICARE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEER GROUP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONALISM; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SELF EMPLOYMENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEADACHE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO;

EID: 84874679688     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001227     Document Type: Review

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