Improving Patient Safety and Incident Reporting Through Use of the Incident Decision Tree

Background: Preventable medical error accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths in the hospital setting each year. A proposed solution to decreasing medical error encompasses the development of a culture of safety. Safety culture has been defined as a common set of values and beliefs that are shared...

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Erin M.
Other Authors: Buchner, Brian
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626648
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/626648