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Commentary
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005: developing an error reporting system to improve patient safety.
March 26, 2008
Riley W, Liang BA, Rutherford W, et al. J Patient Saf. 2008;4(1).
The 2005 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act calls for creation of a national, voluntary error reporting system. This article discusses the scope and essential components of such a system, as well as what other industries can teach health care about error reporting systems.
