A scale for measuring the severity of diagnostic errors in accident and emergency departments.
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A scale for measuring the severity of diagnostic errors in accident and emergency departments.
OBJECTIVE To design and test a simple scale for measuring the severity of diagnostic errors occurring in accident and emergency (A&E) departments. METHODS Empirical design of a scale which indicates the severity of errors on a scale of 1 to 7. It is obtained by adding two scores which indicate the additional treatment which a patient would have received and the follow up which would have been...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.5.290