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Role of cognition in generating and mitigating clinical errors

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  • Vimla L Patel Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thomas G Kannampallil Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Edward H Shortliffe Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Vimla Patel, Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA; vpatel{at}nyam.org
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Patel VL, Kannampallil TG, Shortliffe EH
Role of cognition in generating and mitigating clinical errors
BMJ Quality & Safety 2015;24:468-474.

Publication history

  • Received August 13, 2014
  • Revised March 30, 2015
  • Accepted April 13, 2015
  • First published May 2, 2015.
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May 13, 2016

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