Patient safety knowledge and its determinants in medical trainees.

Price Kerfoot; Paul R Conlin; Thomas Travison; Graham T McMahon

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Patient safety knowledge and its determinants in medical trainees.

June 20, 2007

Kerfoot P, Conlin PR, Travison T, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22(8):1150-4.

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This study used a validated test instrument to assess residents and medical students and found deficits in their understanding of patient safety concepts.

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