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BOOK/REPORT
Tennessee Center for Patient Safety Annual Report 2010.
Nashville, TN: Tennessee Center for Patient Safety; August 2011.
BOOK/REPORT
Patient Safety Authority Annual Reports.
Harrisburg, PA: Patient Safety Authority; April 2012.
BOOK/REPORT
The Patient Safety Initiative at America’s Public Hospitals: The Year One Overview.
Research Brief. Washington, DC: National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems; January 2011.
STUDY
Clinical and economic outcomes attributable to health care–associated sepsis and pneumonia.
Eber MR, Laxminarayan R, Perencevich EN, Malani A. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:347-353.
COMMENTARY
The competent surgeon: individual accountability in the era of "systems" failure.
Whittemore AD. Ann Surg. 2009;250:357-362.
STUDY
Health care–associated invasive MRSA infections, 2005–2008.
Kallen AJ, Mu Y, Bulens S, et al; Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) MRSA Investigators of the Emerging Infections Program. JAMA. 2010;304:641-648.
COMMENTARY
In Conversation with...Steven J. Spear, DBA, MS, MS
AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. August 2009.
BOOK/REPORT
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2009.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; January 2010.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
African Partnerships for Patient Safety.
Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Patient Safety, World Health Organization.
BOOK/REPORT
HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.
Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2009. 
BOOK/REPORT
To Err Is Human — To Delay Is Deadly.
Jewell K, McGiffert L. Austin, TX: Consumers Union; 2009.
BOOK/REPORT
Back to Basics.
Gima Z, Gosselar P, Levine A, Lincoln T, Ramirez A. Washington, DC: Public Citizen; August 6, 2009.
STUDY
Effect of nonpayment for hospital-acquired, catheter–associated urinary tract infection: a statewide analysis.
Meddings JA, Reichert H, Rogers MA, Saint S, Stephansky J, McMahon LF. Ann Intern Med. 2012;157:305-312.
BOOK/REPORT
Eliminating CLABSI: A National Patient Safety Imperative.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0037-1-EF.
BOOK/REPORT
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2010.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2010.
BOOK/REPORT
Keeping the Commitment: A Progress Report on Four Early Leaders in Patient Safety Improvement.
McCarthy D, Klein S. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; March 15, 2011.
COMMENTARY
A new frontier in patient safety.
McCannon J, Berwick DM. JAMA. 2011;305:2221-2222.
AWARD RECIPIENT
Announcing 2009 Leapfrog top hospitals.
Washington, DC: Leapfrog Group; December 4, 2009.
BOOK/REPORT
IBEAS: A Pioneer Study on Patient Safety in Latin America: Towards Safer Hospital Care.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011.
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"To Err Is Human" Report Retrospective and the Decade Ahead.
2009 NPSF Congress: Lucian Leape Institute Plenary. Boston, MA: National Patient Safety Foundation; May 21, 2009.
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