Creating safety in an emergency department
Hospital emergency departments (EDs) are complex, high-hazard sociotechnical systems with distinction as sites of the highest proportion of preventable patient harm. Patient safety is threatened by abbreviated and uneven care in an interrupted environment marked by uncertainty, multiple transitions...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27485 |