Safety incidents in family medicine.

Maeve O'Beirne; Pam D. Sterling; Karen Zwicker; Philip Hebert; Peter G. Norton

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Safety incidents in family medicine.

September 28, 2011

O'Beirne M, Sterling PD, Zwicker K, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20(12):1005-10.

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A new voluntary error reporting system, designed to encourage error reporting in ambulatory family medicine practices, ultimately proved unsuccessful due to low reporting rates.

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