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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Main Author: Hunte, Garth Stephen
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27485

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