Preventing medical errors: how to proceed with caution.

Gina Shaw

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Preventing medical errors: how to proceed with caution.

September 10, 2014

Shaw G. The Hearing Journal. 2014;67(7).

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This article provides an overview of patient safety issues in audiology such as diagnostic error and incomplete documentation. The author reviews steps individual clinicians can take to respond to errors and malpractice claims.

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