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- Title
Patient Safety Efforts Should Focus on Medical Injuries.
- Authors
Layde, Peter M.; Maas, Leslie A.; Teret, Stephen P.; Brasel, Karen J.; Kuhn, Evelyn M.; Mercy, James A.; Hargarten, Stephen W.
- Abstract
Discusses the benefits for patient safety of a primary focus on medical injury based on the injury prevention model from the United States Institute of Medicine. Differences between medical injury and medical error; Difficulty in identifying medical errors; Institutional and personal barriers to the reporting of medical errors, including fear of lawsuits; Advantages of the injury prevention model.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ACCIDENTS; MEDICAL errors; PATIENTS; MEDICAL care
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002, Vol 287, Issue 15, p1993
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.287.15.1993