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Gima Z, Gosselar P, Levine A, Lincoln T, Ramirez A. Washington, DC: Public Citizen; August 6, 2009.

This report recommends 10 improvements and explains how implementing these safety practices could help prevent errors and avoidable deaths as well as save billions in health care costs.
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