Patient safety front and center.

Ken Terry

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Patient safety front and center.

January 30, 2005

Terry K. Hospitals & health networks. 2011;85(7):38-40, 42.

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This article discusses strategies that health care leaders use to drive hospital-based patient safety efforts.

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