Covering Health: Patient Safety.

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Covering Health: Patient Safety.

August 23, 2023

HealthJournalism.org. Columbia, MO: Association of Health Care Journalists; 2010-2023.

The role media plays in raising awareness of patient safety issues in a timely and appropriate manner is consequential. This series instructs writers to communicate on medical error and quality topics in a high-quality professional style with discernment of the content being reported. Series contributions include discussions on medical error statistics and outpatient surgery rankings.

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