The Identification of Medical Errors by Family Physicians During Outpatient Visits
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (2) , 125-129
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.16
Abstract
BACKGROUND We wanted to describe errors and preventable adverse events identified by family physicians during the office-based clinical encounter and to determine the physicians’ perception of patient harm resulting from these events.Keywords
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