Identifying patient safety problems during team rounds: An ethnographic study

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 667-669

  Lamba, A Reema ^a   Linn, Kelly ^b,c   Fletcher, Kathlyn E ^b,c  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; TEAM ROUNDS; WARD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; MEDICAL ERROR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING ROUND; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; TEACHING ROUNDS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84905028552     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002324     Document Type: Article

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