Adverse events in the general and digestive surgery department of a university hospital;Acontecimientos adversos en un servicio de cirugía general y de aparato digestivo de un hospital universitario*

Cirugia Espanola

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 104-109

  Aranaz, Jesús María ^a,c   Teresa Gea, María ^a,c   Marín, Guillermo ^b  

^a Servicio de Medicina Preventiva   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acontecimientos adversos; Adverse events; Cirug a; Gesti n de riesgos; Risk management; Surgery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896857709     PISSN: 0009739X     EISSN: 1578147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-739X(03)72099-5     Document Type: Article

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