Clinical errors and medical negligence

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 323-333

  Oyebode, Femi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical errors; Medical malpractice; Medical negligence; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PROPAFENONE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANOSMIA; ASPHYXIA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BURN; CATARACT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COMA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CRIMINAL LAW; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FALLING; FETAL WELL BEING; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIP DISLOCATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANCY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JAPAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MALPRACTICE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MELANOMA; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; NEGLIGENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSING HOME; OPERATING ROOM; ORBIT INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHARMACIST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SHIFT WORKER; SKIN BIOPSY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SUICIDE; SURGICAL INJURY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; WOUND INFECTION; CLINICAL ERROR; COMORBIDITY; LAW SUIT; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICINE;

DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICINE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL;

EID: 84879126295     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346296     Document Type: Review

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