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- Title
Identifying Adverse Events Caused by Medical Care: Degree of Physician Agreement in a Retrospective Chart Review.
- Authors
Localio, A. Russell; Weaver, Susan L.
- Abstract
Examines degree of agreement among physicians to determine adverse patient outcomes and possible proposals for no-fault compensation for medical injuries. Procedure of two-stage reviews; Effect of type of adverse event on rate of agreement; High rate of agreement for wound infections.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL errors; DECISION making
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996, Vol 125, Issue 6, p457
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-125-6-199609150-00005