A Comprehensive Overview of Medical Error in Hospitals Using Incident-Reporting Systems, Patient Complaints and Chart Review of Inpatient Deaths

BACKGROUND: Incident reporting systems (IRS) are used to identify medical errors in order to learn from mistakes and improve patient safety in hospitals. However, IRS contain only a small fraction of occurring incidents. A more comprehensive overview of medical error in hospitals may be obtained by...

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Autores principales: de Feijter, Jeantine M., de Grave, Willem S., Muijtjens, Arno M., Scherpbier, Albert J. J. A., Koopmans, Richard P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22359567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031125

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