Seeing patient safety 'Like a State'

Safety Science

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-57

  Wears, Robert L ^a,b   Hunte, Garth S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ideology; Modernism; Patient safety; Standardization; Taylorism

Indexed keywords

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SAFETY TESTING; STANDARDIZATION;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; IDEOLOGY; MODERNISM; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY EFFORTS; SAFETY PRACTICES; TAYLORISM;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY; MODERN TIMES; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84897089051     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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