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Using voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency medicine
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  • Nnaemeka Okafor Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Velma L Payne Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Houston, Texas, USA Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yashwant Chathampally Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sara Miller Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pratik Doshi Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hardeep Singh Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Houston, Texas, USA Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nnaemeka Okafor, Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center Medical School, 5431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Nnaemeka.G.Okafor{at}uth.tmc.edu
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Okafor N, Payne VL, Chathampally Y, et al
Using voluntary reports from physicians to learn from diagnostic errors in emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine Journal 2016;33:245-252.

Publication history

  • Received December 22, 2014
  • Revised August 3, 2015
  • Accepted August 25, 2015
  • First published November 3, 2015.
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October 24, 2016

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