Engaging patients as safety partners: some considerations for ensuring a culturally and linguistically appropriate approach.

Megan-Jane Johnstone; Olga Kanitsaki

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Engaging patients as safety partners: some considerations for ensuring a culturally and linguistically appropriate approach.

November 12, 2008

Johnstone M-J, Kanitsaki O. Health Policy (New York). 2009;90(1):1-7.

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This article reviews the concept of patient participation in safety in the context of factors affecting patients and families from minority cultural or linguistic backgrounds.

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