Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.

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Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.

October 3, 2007

Leonhardt K; Bonin K; Pagel P; Aurora Health Care; Consumers Advancing Patient Safety; CAPS.

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This AHRQ-funded toolkit outlines how one Midwestern hospital system successfully implemented a patient advisory council. A companion toolkit illustrates how the council worked with the hospital to develop and implement a medication list initiative.

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