Preventing Problems, Medical Errors, and Biohazards in Point-of-Care Testing: Using Complex Adaptive Systems to Improve Outcomes

Plastic Surgical Nursing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 78-88

  Kost, Gerald J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Point of Care Testing   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood gas; Cardiac markers; Coagulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026162883     PISSN: 07415206     EISSN: 15501841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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