Identifying and addressing preventable process errors in trauma care.

Philip H. Pucher; Rajesh Aggarwal; Ahmed Twaij; Nicola Batrick; Michael Jenkins; Ara Darzi

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Identifying and addressing preventable process errors in trauma care.

June 26, 2013

Pucher PH, Aggarwal R, Twaij A, et al. World J Surg. 2013;37(4):752-8.

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Most preventable errors in trauma care were errors of omission, often occurring during the initial assessment in the emergency department.

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