Measurable improvement in patient safety culture: A departmental experience with incident learning

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages e229-e237

  Kusano, Aaron S ^a   Nyflot, Matthew J ^a   Zeng, Jing ^a   Sponseller, Patricia A ^a   Ermoian, Ralph ^a   Jordan, Loucille ^a   Carlson, Joshua ^a   Novak, Avrey ^a   Kane, Gabrielle ^a   Ford, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEAMWORK; VALIDATION STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEEDBACK; HUMANS; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84940924464     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2014.07.002     Document Type: Article

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