Heuristic thinking: interdisciplinary perspectives on medical error
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Heuristic Thinking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Medical Error
Approximately 43 million adverse events occur across the globe each year at a cost of at least 23 million disability-adjusted life years and $132 billion in excess health care spending, ranking this safety burden among the top 10 medical causes of disability in the world.1 These findings are likely to be an understatement of the actual severity of the problem, given that the numbers merely refl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2279-9036,2279-9028
DOI: 10.4081/jphr.2013.e22