Patient safety and quality improvement: reducing risk of harm.

Michael Leonard

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Patient safety and quality improvement: reducing risk of harm.

October 21, 2015

Leonard M. Pediatr Rev. 2015;36(10):448-56; quiz 457-8.

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The ambulatory care environment presents a range of challenges to patient safety. This review explores medical errors in ambulatory pediatric care and reviews strategies to improve safety in this setting, including structured communication tools and analysis of failures to develop safer systems.

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