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. 2000 Mar 18;320(7237):791-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7237.791.

Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety

R I Cook  1 , M Render, D D Woods
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Gaps in the continuity of care and progress on patient safety

R I Cook et al. BMJ. .
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Coping with discontinuities in care is a major activity of health workers
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    1. National Patient Safety Foundation. Agenda for research and development in patient safety. 24 May 1999. www.ama-assn.org/med-sci/npsf/research/research.htm(accessed 22 Nov 1999).
    1. Woods DD. Coping with complexity: the psychology of human behavior in complex systems. In: Goodstein LP, Andersen HB, Olsen SE, editors. Tasks, errors and mental models. London: Taylor and Francis; 1988. pp. 128–148.
    1. Woods DD, Cook RI. Perspectives on human error: hindsight biases and local rationality. In: Durso RS, editor. Handbook of applied cognition. New York: Wiley; 1999. pp. 141–171.
    1. Cook RI, Woods DD, Miller C. A tale of two stories: contrasting views of patient safety. Chicago: National Patient Safety Foundation; 1998. www.npsf.org . (Report from a workshop on assembling the scientific basis for progress on patient safety; available as PDF file via www.npsf.org) )

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