Measuring errors and adverse events in health care
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 18 (1) , 61-67
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2003.20147.x
Abstract
In this paper, we identify 8 methods used to measure errors and adverse events in health care and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We focus on the rKeywords
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