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Achieving a successful patient safety program with implementation of a harm reduction strategy. October 25, 2023
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Spotlight on electronic health record errors: errors related to the use of default values. September 25, 2013
Medicine and the rise of the robots: a qualitative review of recent advances of artificial intelligence in health. July 11, 2018
Day passes for vulnerable patients of psychiatric hospitals can have dangerous, even fatal consequences. June 21, 2017
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Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out. March 10, 2010
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research: Final Report. September 22, 2010
The hospital ran out of her child's cancer drug. Now she's fighting to end shortages. November 1, 2023
Deprescribing medicines in older people living with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: the TAILOR evidence synthesis. October 5, 2022
Assessment of patient-preferred language to achieve goal-aligned deprescribing in older adults. June 30, 2021
Use of an electronic clinical decision support system in primary care to assess inappropriate polypharmacy in young seniors with multimorbidity: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study April 8, 2020
With scarce access to interpreters, immigrants struggle to understand doctors' orders. August 29, 2018