Doctors' thinking about 'the system' as a threat to patient safety.

Justin Waring

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Doctors' thinking about 'the system' as a threat to patient safety.

January 3, 2007

Waring J. Health (London). 2007;11(1):29-46.

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The author interviewed British physicians to explore how they explained threats to patient safety and found that the physicians think of the system as causing medical error.

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