Critical incident reporting in emergency medicine: Results of the prehospital reports

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 415-418

  Hohenstein, Christian ^a   Hempel, Dorothea ^b   Schultheis, Kerstin ^c   Lotter, Oliver ^d   Fleischmann, Thomas ^e  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^d Department of Trauma and Plastic Surgery BG Unfallklinik Tuebingen ^*  (Germany)

^e Klinikum Salzgitter   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INTERNET; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RISK MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AUSTRIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL ERRORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84901692224     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201871     Document Type: Article

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