The global burden of unsafe medical care: Analytic modelling of observational studies

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 809-815

  Jha, Ashish K ^a   Larizgoitia, Itziar ^b   Audera Lopez, Carmen ^b   Prasopa Plaizier, Nittita ^b   Waters, Hugh ^c   Bates, David W ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; DECUBITUS; DISABILITY; DISEASE MODEL; FALLING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADVERSE EVENTS, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DETECTION; HEALTH POLICY; MEDICAL ERROR, MEASUREMENT/EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PATIENT SAFETY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84884648890     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-001748     Document Type: Article

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