Using voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency medicine

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 245-252

  Okafor, Nnaemeka ^a   Payne, Velma L ^b,c   Chathampally, Yashwant ^a   Miller, Sara ^a   Doshi, Pratik ^a   Singh, Hardeep ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ABSCESS; ACUTE CLOSURE GLAUCOMA; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROCOLITIS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLAUCOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INJURY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HIRSCHSPRUNG ENTEROCOLITIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; HYPOXIA; INCIDENT REPORT; INTERVIEW; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE MALROTATION; INTRA ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; INTRACRANIAL SHUNT MALFUNCTION; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; LARYNGEAL MASS; LARYNX DISORDER; LIMB FRACTURE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MIGRAINE; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; OVARIAN TORSION; OVARY DISEASE; PATIENT HARM; PELVIS FRACTURE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIB FRACTURE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TESTIS INJURY; URETHRA INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VERTIGO; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; WORKLOAD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84962763977     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2014-204604     Document Type: Article

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