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COMMENTARY
Patient safety: moving the bar in prison health care standards.
Stern MF, Greifinger RB, Mellow J. Am J Public Health. 2010;100:2103-2110.
BOOK/REPORTclassic
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
Tennessee Center for Patient Safety Annual Report 2010.
Nashville, TN: Tennessee Center for Patient Safety; August 2011.
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Get me out alive.
Feldman R. The Washington Post. May 2, 2006:HE01.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Interprofessional Approaches to Patient Safety.
J Interprof Care. 2006;20:455-571.
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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.
COMMENTARY
The Preventable Harm Index: an effective motivator to facilitate the drive to zero.
Brilli RJ, McClead RE Jr, Davis T, Stoverock L, Rayburn A, Berry JC. J Pediatr. 2010;157:681-683.
BOOK/REPORT
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2012.
SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE
Patient Safety Papers 5.
Baker GR, ed. Healthc Q. 2010;13:1-136.
BOOK/REPORT
Building a Culture of Patient Safety: Report of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance.
Dublin, Ireland: Department of Health & Children, Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance; 2008. ISBN: 9781406421835.
COMMENTARY
In Conversation with...J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, MA
AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. December 2006.
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.
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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.
MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
AHRQ 2008 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2009.
MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 2009.
COMMENTARY
Disruptive clinician behavior: a persistent threat to patient safety.
Porto G, Lauve R. Patient Safety Qual Healthc. July/August 2006;3:16-24.
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Patient safety at ten: unmistakable progress, troubling gaps.
Wachter RM. Health Aff (Millwood). 2010;29:165-173.
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