A model for medication safety event detection.

Rita A Snyder; Willa Fields

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A model for medication safety event detection.

April 28, 2010

Snyder RA, Fields W. Int J Qual Health Care. 2010;22(3):179-86.

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This AHRQ-funded work describes a model to identify medication safety events that applies a systems approach and provides an example case study to demonstrate its use.

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