Rates of medical errors and preventable adverse events among hospitalized children following implementation of a resident handoff bundle

JAMA

Volumn 310, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2262-2270

  Starmer, Amy J ^a,b   Sectish, Theodore C ^a   Simon, Dennis W ^a,c   Keohane, Carol ^a   McSweeney, Maireade E ^a   Chung, Erica Y ^a,d   Yoon, Catherine S ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Wassner, Ari J ^a   Harper, Marvin B ^a   Landrigan, Christopher P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL HANDOVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84889042820     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.281961     Document Type: Article

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