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Errors and adverse events in family medicine

Developing and validating a Canadian taxonomy of errors

Sarah Jacobs, Maeve O’Beirne, Luz Palacios Derfiingher, Lucie Vlach, Walter Rosser and Neil Drummond
Canadian Family Physician February 2007; 53 (2) 270-276;

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vol. 53 no. 2 270-276
PubMed 
17872644
Published By 
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
Online ISSN 
1715-5258
History 
  • Published online February 1, 2007.
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Copyright© the College of Family Physicians of Canada

Author Information

  1. Sarah Jacobs, MA
  1. Student in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto in Ontario.
  1. Maeve O’Beirne, MD PhD CCFP
  1. Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
  1. Luz Palacios Derfiingher, MSc and
  2. Lucie Vlach
  1. Primary Care Research and Development Group in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary.
  1. Walter Rosser, MD CCFP FRCP MRCGP(UK)
  1. Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
  1. Neil Drummond, PhD
  1. Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary
  1. Correspondence to: Dr Neil Drummond, 1707 1632-14th Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1M7; telephone 403 210-9246; fax 403 270-4329; e-mail ndrummon{at}ucalgary.ca.
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Errors and adverse events in family medicine
Sarah Jacobs, Maeve O’Beirne, Luz Palacios Derfiingher, Lucie Vlach, Walter Rosser, Neil Drummond
Canadian Family Physician Feb 2007, 53 (2) 270-276;
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