Hospital internet site content on patient safety and medical errors.

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Hospital internet site content on patient safety and medical errors.

September 27, 2006

Heffner JE, Webster L, Ellis R. J Patient Saf. 2006;2(2):72-77.

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The authors looked at safety program–related content on 250 US hospitals' Web sites and found that few used their Web sites to provide public information on their hospital's safety efforts.

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