A root cause analysis of clinical error: confronting the disjunction between formal rules and situated clinical activity.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2006-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2006.03.035PMID 16690184
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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