Threats to patient safety in the primary care office: concerns of physicians and nurses.

David L B Schwappach; Katrin Gehring; Markus Battaglia; Roman Buff; Felix Huber; Peter Sauter; Markus Wieser

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Threats to patient safety in the primary care office: concerns of physicians and nurses.

August 8, 2012

Schwappach DLB, Gehring K, Battaglia M, et al. Swiss Med Wkly. 2012;142:w13601.

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Swiss doctors and nurses identified five domains of medical errors in the primary care setting.

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