Sarcoidosis: patient treatment priorities
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Setting priorities for patient safety.
BACKGROUND Current "flags" for adverse events (AEs) are biased towards those with serious outcomes, potentially leading to failure to address mundane common problems. AIM To provide a basis for setting priorities to improve patient safety by ranking adverse events by resource consumption as well as by outcome. This was done by classifying a set of AEs, according to how they may be prevented, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: ERJ Open Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2312-0541
DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00141-2018