A new approach of assessing patient safety aspects in routine practice using the example of “doctors handwritten prescriptions”

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2019, Pages 1242-1250

  Sendlhofer, Gerald ^a,b   Pregartner, Gudrun ^a   Gombotz, Veronika ^b   Leitgeb, Karina ^b   Tiefenbacher, Peter ^b   Jantscher, Lydia ^b   Richter, Christian ^b   Hoffmann, Magdalena ^a,b   Kamolz, Lars P ^a   Brunner, Gernot ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

assessment; compliance; general practice; medication error; patient safety; quality and safety

Indexed keywords

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CHECKLIST; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85062692375     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.14736     Document Type: Article

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