Quality indicators in critical care nursing
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Quality Indicators in Critical Care - Express Healthcare
A sensation was created throughout the world when Institute of Medicine (IOM) attributed up to 98000 deaths due to preventable medical errors in United States.1 Methodology of this report was challenged but the magnitude of the problem was highlighted again when a conservative estimate by Institute of Medicine and Healthgrades showed that 400,000-1.2 million errorinduced deaths had taken place ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1340-7988,1882-966X
DOI: 10.3918/jsicm.20.381