Patient safety is not elective: A debate at the NPSF Patient Safety Congress

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 162-166

  McTiernan, Patricia ^a   Wachter, Robert M ^b   Meyer, Gregg S ^c   Gandhi, Tejal K ^a  

^a National Patient Safety Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PATIENT SAFETY; REVIEW; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS;

CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY;

EID: 84921637432     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003429     Document Type: Review

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