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- Title
Patient safety and telephone medicine : some lessons from closed claim case review.
- Authors
Katz, Harvey P; Kaltsounis, Dawn; Halloran, Liz; Mondor, Maureen
- Abstract
The telephone can facilitate medical care but also result in adverse outcomes leading to telephone-related malpractice suits. Analyzing claims might identify errors amenable to prevention. The objective of the study was to describe medical errors involving the telephone in patient-clinician encounters that significantly impacted medical care and medico-legal outcomes.
- Publication
Journal of general internal medicine, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 5, p517
- ISSN
1525-1497
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-007-0491-y