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BOOK/REPORT
2009 National Healthcare Quality Report.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; March 2010. AHRQ Publication No. 10-0003.
BOOK/REPORT
National Priorities and Goals: Aligning Our Efforts to Transform America's Healthcare.
National Priorities Partnership. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2008. ISBN: 1933875194.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errors.
Landro L. Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition). June 14, 2006:D1. [Reprinted on Post-gazette.com].
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
10 things your hospital won't tell you.
Kapadia R. Smart Money. October 2006;15:112-114.
BOOK/REPORT
Hospital-acquired infections in Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council; November 2006.
AUDIOVISUAL
Avoiding medical error.
Colvin G. "The Colvin Interview." CNN. February 5, 2007.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Hospitals' bid to heal selves saves thousands.
P-I Staff and News Services. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. June 15, 2006:A1.
AWARD RECIPIENT
2006 Quest for Quality Prize.
Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. September 2006. 
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Fixing America's hospitals.
Newsweek. October 16, 2006:44-68, 72.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Get me out alive.
Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Perfect is possible.
Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Inquiry into reporter's death finds multiple failures in care.
Stout D. New York Times. June 17, 2006;National desk:9.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Health-care industry agrees on patient safety rules.
Landro L. Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). November 1, 2006:D1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Hospitals combat errors at the 'hand-off.'
Landro L. Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition). June 28, 2006:D1. [reprinted on Post-gazette.com].
BOOK/REPORT
To Err Is Human — To Delay Is Deadly.
Jewell K, McGiffert L. Austin, TX: Consumers Union; 2009.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
National Patient Safety Awareness Week.
National Patient Safety Foundation.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Hospitals boost patients' power as advisers.
Landro L. Wall Street Journal. August 8, 2007:D1.
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.
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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.
AUDIOVISUAL
Health agency: drug errors still common.
Knox R. "All Things Considered." National Public Radio. July 20, 2006.
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