Medical error and systems of signaling: conceptual and linguistic definition.

Andrea Smorti; Francesco Cappelli; Roberta Zarantonello; Franca Tani; Gian Franco Gensini

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Medical error and systems of signaling: conceptual and linguistic definition.

August 6, 2014

Smorti A, Cappelli F, Zarantonello R, et al. Intern Emerg Med. 2014;9(6):681-8.

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Explaining the differences between individual and system causes for medical errors, this commentary relates methods to identify and analyze patient safety hazards and promotes learning from failures.

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