Ambiguities of chronic illness management and challenges to the medical error paradigm.

Karen E. Lutfey; Jeremy Freese

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Ambiguities of chronic illness management and challenges to the medical error paradigm.

December 22, 2010

Lutfey KE, Freese J. Soc Sci Med. 2007;64(2):314-25.

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The authors studied provider understanding of error in two diabetes clinics and found that medical error vocabularies used in acute illness care are mismatched when used regarding chronic illness.

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