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Patients as Partners: How to Involve Patients and Families in Their Own Care.
Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission Resources; 2006. ISBN: 0866889965.

This book illustrates how health care providers have worked with patients to ensure safe care through improved communication, education, and health literacy assessment.
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