Pediatric Intensive Care Databases for Quality Improvement
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Quality improvement in pediatric care
We often overlook the importance of several safety issues such as identification of patients, timeout procedure, hand hygiene, handoff communication, and many others. This ignorance, along with many other issues, leads to medical error being ranked as a third leading cause of death in the U.S. Consequently, quality improvement (QI) has become one of the major subjects in healthcare despite a re...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2146-4618,2146-4626
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1568146