20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors.

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20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors.

March 6, 2005

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ.

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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