Creating a safety culture at the Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia.

Katrina N. Verschoor; Annemarie Taylor; Tracie L. Northway; Denise G. Hudson; Dori E. Van Stolk; Kim J. Shearer; Debbie L. McDougall; Georgene Miller

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Creating a safety culture at the Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia.

January 14, 2011

Verschoor KN, Taylor A, Northway TL, et al. J Pediatr Nurs. 2007;22(1):81-6.

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The authors describe their application of several safety culture improvement strategies at their hospital and discuss lessons learned.

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