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MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2009.
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Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2008. AHRQ Publication Nos. 080034 (1-4).
BOOK/REPORT
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III.
Farley DO, Damberg CL, Ridgely MS, et al. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2007. ISBN: 9780833042170
MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2008.  
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Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2005. AHRQ Publication Nos. 050021 (1-4).
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Patient Safety, 2nd edition.
Vincent C. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010. ISBN: 9781405192217.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
The English Patient Safety Programme.
J Health Serv Research Pol. 2010;15(suppl 1):S1-S91.
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.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Still Crossing The Quality Chasm.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2011;30:554-800.
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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.
BOOK/REPORT
Addressing the quality and safety gap—parts I-II.
Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; July 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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Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine.
Croskerry P, Cosby KS, Schenkel SM, Wears RL, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2009. ISBN: 9780781777278.
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.
PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT
Common formats for patient safety data collection and event reporting.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fed Register. September 2, 2009;74:45457-45458.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Quality of Anesthesia Care. 
Neuman MD, Martinez EA, eds. Anesthesiol Clin. 2011;29:1-178.
BOOK/REPORT
Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing.
Cameron M. St. John's, NL: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; 2009. ISBN: 978551463537.
BOOK/REPORT
High Quality Care for All: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report.
Darzi A. National Health Service. London, England: Crown Publishing; June 2008. ISBN: 9780101743228.
COMMENTARY
Viewing health care delivery as science: challenges, benefits, and policy implications.
Pronovost PJ, Goeschel CA. Health Serv Res. 2010;45:1508-1522.
BOOK/REPORT
Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation.
Raheja D. New York, NY: Productivity Press; 2011. ISBN: 9781439821022.
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