Building a safer foundation: the Lessons Learnt patient safety training programme.

Maria Ahmed; Sonal Arora; Stephenie Tiew; Jacky Hayden; Nick Sevdalis; Charles A Vincent; Paul Baker

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Building a safer foundation: the Lessons Learnt patient safety training programme.

November 6, 2013

Ahmed M, Arora S, Tiew S, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(1):78-86.

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A training program in patient safety for junior doctors resulted in improved patient safety knowledge as well as increased rates of voluntary error reporting.

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