Setting priorities for patient safety: ethics, accountability, and public engagement.

Peter Pronovost; Ruth R. Faden

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Setting priorities for patient safety: ethics, accountability, and public engagement.

September 2, 2009

Pronovost P, Faden RR. JAMA. 2009;302(8):890-1.

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This commentary focuses on the challenge of prioritizing strategies to reduce medical errors and advocates for a national policy to frame the process.

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