Barriers and strategies for effective patient rescue: A qualitative study of outliers

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 503-513

  Wakeam, Elliot ^a,b   Hyder, Joseph A ^c   Ashley, Stanley W ^a,d   Weissman, Joel S ^a,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTANT COMPARATIVE METHOD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION; PURPOSIVE SAMPLE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RECOGNITION; REMISSION; RESPONSIBILITY; SAFETY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURGERY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84975298039     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(14)40065-5     Document Type: Article

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