Open wide: looking into the safety culture of dental school clinics.

Rachel Ramoni; Muhammad F Walji; Anamaria Tavares; Joel White; Oluwabunmi Tokede; Ram Vaderhobli; Elsbeth Kalenderian

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Open wide: looking into the safety culture of dental school clinics.

July 9, 2014

Ramoni R, Walji MF, Tavares A, et al. J Dent Edu. 2014;78(5):745-756.

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Researchers administered the AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture at three dental schools in the United States and determined that safety culture in dentistry is lacking. A past AHRQ WebM&M commentary describes a wrong-site dental surgery and recommends strategies to reduce risk of errors in this setting.

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