Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety.

Anne Millman; Peter Pronovost; Martin A Makary; Albert W Wu

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Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety.

June 1, 2011

Millman A, Pronovost P, Makary MA, et al. J Patient Saf. 2011;7(2):106-8.

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This commentary suggests that patient-assisted incident reporting following an adverse event can reveal contributing factors the care team may have missed.

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