Medication Without Harm: WHO's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge

The Lancet

Volumn 389, Issue 10080, 2017, Pages 1680-1681

  Donaldson, Liam J ^a   Kelley, Edward T ^b   Dhingra Kumar, Neelam ^b   Kieny, Marie Paule ^b   Sheikh, Aziz ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG INDUSTRY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICATION ERROR; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WRITTEN COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85018239628     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31047-4     Document Type: Note

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