Levels of prevention of non-clinical adverse events in a health unit
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Keywords
Adverse Events, Natural History, Levels of Prevention
Abstract
This letter to the editor is inspired on the idea of the natural history of disease and levels of prevention as published by doctors Leavell and Clark in 1957 to present an analogous idea whose purpose is preventing, repairing opportunely and rehabilitating after a non-clinical adverse event the services provided by a health organization through its physicians and non-physician personnel.
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