Patient safety: a tale of two systems...reprinted from M. Silver and R. Lusk, Patient safety: a tale of two systems, Quality Management in Health Care, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 12-22, Copyright 2002 Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Patient safety remains a major issue for health care delivery systems and the American public. One community hospital has kept pace with this issue using traditional quality management approaches. A national multihospital health care system has leveraged its electronic medical record system to facil...

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Publicado en:Journal of Nursing Care Quality Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 24 - 36
Autores principales: Silver MR, Lusk R
Formato: algorithm pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Apr2002
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Sumario:Patient safety remains a major issue for health care delivery systems and the American public. One community hospital has kept pace with this issue using traditional quality management approaches. A national multihospital health care system has leveraged its electronic medical record system to facilitate data collection and analysis of events impacting patient safety. The article describes both approaches for addressing the complex issues surrounding patient safety. Copyright © 2002 by Aspen Publishers, Inc.