Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 13-20 , March 2007

Patient safety ethics and human error management in ED contexts: Part I: Development of the global patient safety movement

Received 29 August 2006 ,Accepted 18 November 2006.

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☆ An earlier version of this paper was presented as an invited paper at the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) 2nd National Emergency Nursing Conference, 25 August, 2006, Hobart, Tasmania.

PII: S1574-6267(06)00098-X

doi: 10.1016/j.aenj.2006.09.002

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 13-20 , March 2007

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