Detecting and reducing hospital adverse events: outcomes of the Wimmera clinical risk management program
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 174 (12) , 621-625
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143469.x
Abstract
Objectives To determine if an integrated clinical risk management program that detects adverse patient events in a hospital, analyses their risk and takes action can alter the rate of adverse events...Keywords
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