Eliminating perioperative adverse events at Ascension Health.

Hella Ewing; Greg Bruder; Paul Baroco; Maria Hill; Lora P. Sparkman

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Eliminating perioperative adverse events at Ascension Health.

May 9, 2007

Ewing H, Bruder G, Baroco P, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33(5):256-66.

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The authors describe a hospital system's initiative to improve perioperative safety and the lessons learned from implementation at two alpha sites.

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