Current challenges and future perspectives for patient safety in surgery

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stahel, Philip F ^a   Mauffrey, Cyril ^a   Butler, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84896724397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-8-9     Document Type: Editorial

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