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20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors.
Patient Fact Sheet. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2011. AHRQ Publication No. 11-0089.

This fact sheet for patients provides recommendations to help them prevent medical errors when taking medications, during a hospital stay, and prior to having surgery.
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