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BOOK/REPORT
Patient Safety Authority Annual Reports.
Harrisburg, PA: Patient Safety Authority; April 2012.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Perfect is possible.
Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.
BOOK/REPORT
HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.
Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2009. 
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
HAC Posting on Hospital Compare.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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.
BOOK/REPORT
To Err Is Human—But Don't Expect to Get Paid For It.
ASQ Quarterly Quality Report. Milwaukee, WI: American Society of Quality; October 2008.
TOOLKIT
Making Strides in Safety.
Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.
BOOK/REPORT
HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.
Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2010.
BOOK/REPORT
Report on the Burden of Endemic Health Care–Associated Infection Worldwide.
Allegranzi B, Nejad SB, Castillejos GG, Kilpatrick C, Kelley E, Mathai E; Clean Care is Safer Care Team. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011. ISBN: 9789241501507.
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Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2011.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2011.
COMMENTARY
In Conversation with…Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2008.
STUDY
Utility of an online medication-error-reporting system.
Savage SW, Schneider PJ, Pedersen CA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62:2265-2270.
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Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association with postoperative infections.
Stulberg JJ, Delaney CP, Neuhauser DV, Aron DC, Fu P, Koroukian SM. JAMA. 2010;303:2479-2485.
STUDYclassic
Do the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators flag conditions that are present at the time of hospital admission?
Bahl V, Thompson MA, Kau T-Y, Hu HM, Campbell DA Jr. Med Care. 2008;46:516-522.
COMMENTARY
Ventilator-associated pneumonia—the wrong quality measure for benchmarking.
Klompas M, Platt R. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147:803-805.
MULTI-USE WEBSITE
Organisation Patient Safety Incident Reports.
National Patient Safety Agency.
STUDY
Reconciling medications at admission: safe practice recommendations and implementation strategies.
Rogers G, Alper E, Brunelle D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:37-50.
COMMENTARY
Integrating CUSP and TRIP to improve patient safety.
Romig M, Goeschel C, Pronovost P, Berenholtz SM. Hosp Pract (Minneap). 2010;38:114-121.
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