Profiles in patient safety: Authority gradients in medical error

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1341-1345

  Cosby, Karen S ^a   Croskerry, Pat ^a  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

authority gradients; medical error; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITY; BIOSAFETY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 9644279584     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.07.005     Document Type: Article

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