Can your nurses stop a surgeon?

Matthew Weinstock

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Can your nurses stop a surgeon?

September 26, 2007

Weinstock M. Hosp Health Netw. 2007;81(9):38-42.

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This article traces the development of a safety culture in a large Illinois health care system and describes its successful use of tactics such as red rules and behavior change to sustain that environment.

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