Keeping the Commitment: A Progress Report on Four Early Leaders in Patient Safety Improvement.

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Keeping the Commitment: A Progress Report on Four Early Leaders in Patient Safety Improvement.

March 30, 2011

McCarthy D, Klein S. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund; March 15, 2011.

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Updating a previous report, this publication explains how four organizations have sustained patient safety improvements.

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