Patient safety in healthcare preregistration educational curricula: Multiple case study-based investigations of eight medicine, nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy university courses

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 843-854

  Cresswell, Kathrin ^a   Howe, Amanda ^b   Steven, Alison ^c   Smith, Pam ^a   Ashcroft, Darren ^d   Fairhurst, Karen ^a   Bradley, Fay ^d   Magnusson, Carin ^e   McArthur, Maggie ^f   Pearson, Pauline ^c   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COURSE CONTENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REGISTRATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNIVERSITY;

MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY CULTURE;

CURRICULUM; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84884657955     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001905     Document Type: Article

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