Lessons from the TAPS study - errors relating to medical records.
The Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) Study collected 648 anonymous reports about threats to patient safety from a representative random sample of Australian general practitioners. These contained any events the GPs felt should not have happened and would not want to happen again, regardless of who was at fault or the outcome of the event. This series of articles presents clinical lessons resulting from the TAPS study.
Makeham
Meredith A B
MA
Discipline of General Practice, The University of Sydney, New South Wales. meredith@gp.med.usyd.edu.au
Bridges-Webb
Charles
C
Kidd
Michael R
MR
D001315:Australia; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D017751:Safety Management