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Mortality as an indicator of patient safety in orthopaedics: lessons from qualitative analysis of a database of medical errors

BACKGROUND: Orthopaedic surgery is a high-risk specialty in which errors will undoubtedly occur. Patient safety incidents can yield valuable information to generate solutions and prevent future cases of avoidable harm. The aim of this study was to understand the causative factors leading to all unne...

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Autores principales: Panesar, Sukhmeet S, Carson-Stevens, Andrew, Mann, Bhupinder S, Bhandari, Mohit, Madhok, Rajan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22682470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-13-93