AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Preventing medical errors: how to proceed with caution.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network







Preventing medical errors: how to proceed with caution.

Shaw G. Hearing J. July 2014;67:11,14-16.

This article provides an overview of patient safety issues in audiology such as diagnostic error and incomplete documentation. The author reviews steps individual clinicians can take to respond to errors and malpractice claims.

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