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Organizational Change in the Face of Highly Public Errors—I. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Experience AHRQ WebM&M icon
Conway JB, Weingart SN. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2005.
A decade ago, two tragic medical errors rocked one of the world’s great cancer hospitals, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, to its core. The errors led to considerable soul searching and, ultimately, a major change in institutional practices a...
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