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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Maternity ward at Highland under fire from patients.
Vesely R. Inside Bay Area. December 28, 2006.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Health literacy—a quality and patient safety imperative.
Foubister V. Quality Matters. November/December 2006.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Q: What scares doctors? A: Being the patient.
Gibbs N, Bower A. Time Magazine. May 1, 2006.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety.
The Joint Commission, Joint Commission Resources.
AUDIOVISUAL
Hospital Medication Errors Commonplace.
Palca J. National Public Radio. July 28, 2006.
BOOK/REPORT
HealthGrades Quality Study: Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.
Golden, CO: Health Grades, Inc.; April 2006.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Improving Health Care Quality.
Wisc Med J. 2006:105;1-86.
AUDIOVISUAL
Health agency: drug errors still common.
Knox R. "All Things Considered." National Public Radio. July 20, 2006.
BOOK/REPORT
Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series.
Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Aspden P, Wolcott J, Bootman JL, Cronenwett LR, eds. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2007.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Inquiry into reporter's death finds multiple failures in care.
Stout D. New York Times. June 17, 2006;National desk:9.
BOOK/REPORT
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An Update on the Quality of American Health Care Through the Patient's Lens.
Davis K, Schoen S, Schoenbaum SC, et al. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; April 2006.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Health for life. Keys to safer hospitals.
Berwick DM. Newsweek. December 12, 2005;46:75-78.
BOOK/REPORT
The Girl Who Died Twice: Every Patient's Nightmare: the Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals.
Robins NS. New York, NY: Delacorte Press; 1995. ISBN 0385308094.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
National Patient Safety Awareness Week.
National Patient Safety Foundation.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Perfect is possible.
Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.
AUDIOVISUAL
Toward a High Performance Health System: Public-Private Efforts to Make Health Care Safer and More Effective.
Washington, DC: Alliance for Health Reform, The Commonwealth Fund; 2005.
BOOK/REPORT
Human Error in Medicine.
Bogner MSE. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1994.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
How can we save the next victim?
Belkin L. New York Times Magazine. June 15, 1997;sect 6:28-33, 44, 50, 63, 66, 70.
FACT SHEET/FAQS
Safety as You Go from Hospital to Home.
McLean, VA: National Patient Safety Foundation.
COMMENTARY
Our broken health care system and how to fix it: an essay on health law and policy.
Jost TS. Wake Forest Law Rev. 2006;41:537-618.
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