Organization and representation of patient safety data: current status and issues around generalizability and scalability.

Aziz A. Boxwala; Meghan Dierks; Maura Keenan; Susan Jackson; Robert Hanscom; David W. Bates; Luke Sato

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Organization and representation of patient safety data: current status and issues around generalizability and scalability.

March 6, 2005

Boxwala AA, Dierks M, Keenan M, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004;11(6):468-78.

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