Medical errors in hospitalized pediatric trauma patients with chronic health conditions

SAGE Open Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Xiaotong ^a,b   Yin, Han ^a,b   Shi, Junxin ^a   Wheeler, Krista Kurz ^a   Groner, Jonathan I ^a,c,d   Xiang, Huiyun ^a,d  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Chronic conditions; Medical errors; Pediatric; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051084942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050312113519987     Document Type: Article

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