Health care quality and safety in a correctional system: creating goals and performance measures for improvement.
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Incarcerated individuals face unique patient safety threats. Based on a collaboration between the Illinois Department of Corrections and the University of Illinois College of Nursing, this article describes a plan for improving the quality and safety of healthcare for the state’s incarcerated population.