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Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System.
Farley DO, Ridgely MS, Mendel P, et al. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2009. ISBN: 9780833047748.
 

This publication reports the results of a 2-year examination to determine the effectiveness of US efforts to improve patient safety, explore hospitals' experience with the AHRQ patient safety culture survey, and highlight trends in patient safety improvement.
 
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Resource Type:  Book/Report

Setting of Care:  Hospitals

Target Audience:  Health Care Executives and Administrators

   Non-Health Care Professionals > Safety Scientists

   Non-Health Care Professionals > Policy Makers

Clinical Area:  Medicine > Internal Medicine > General Internal Medicine

   Medicine > Hospital Medicine

Approach to Improving Safety:  Culture of Safety

Origin/Sponsor:  North America > United States of America > United States Federal Government > Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) > Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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