An initiative to improve the management of clinically significant test results in a large health care network

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 517-527

  Roy, Christopher L ^a,b   Rothschild, Jeffrey M ^b,c   Dighe, Anand S ^b,d   Schiff, Gordon D ^a,b   Graydon Baker, Erin ^a,e   Lenoci Edwards, Jennifer ^f   Dwyer, Cheryl ^f   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b,g,h   Gandhi, Tejal K ^b,f,i  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Partners Home Care   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^g Partners HealthCare ^*  (United States)

^h Center for Evidence Based Imaging   (United States)

ⁱ National Patient Safety Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ERROR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIS TUMOR; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; OVARY TUMOR; STANDARD;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887973657     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(13)39068-0     Document Type: Article

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