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Patient safety and mental health-a growing quality gap in Canada.

October 6, 2021

Waddell AE, Gratzer D. Can J Psychiatry. 2022;67(4):246-249.

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Safety gaps in mental health care offers a limited view if focused primarily on patient suicide. This commentary calls for Canadian psychiatric professionals to examine the safety of their patients from a system perspective to develop a research and practice improvement strategy.

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