Attitudes of doctors and nurses towards incident reporting: a qualitative analysis
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Attitudes of doctors and nurses towards incident reporting: a qualitative analysis.
OBJECTIVES (i) To examine attitudes of medical and nursing staff towards reporting incidents (adverse events and near-misses), and (ii) to identify measures to facilitate incident reporting. DESIGN Qualitative study. In March 2002, semistructured questions were administered to five focus groups--one each for consultants, registrars, resident medical officers, senior nurses, and junior nurses....
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06158.x