As industry automates, adverse events continue to haunt caregivers.

Tracy Granzyk Wetzel

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As industry automates, adverse events continue to haunt caregivers.

February 16, 2011

Wetzel TG. Health data management. 2011;19(2):86, 88, 90 passim.

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