Patient safety outcomes in small urban and small rural hospitals.

Smruti Vartak; Marcia M Ward; Thomas E Vaughn

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Patient safety outcomes in small urban and small rural hospitals.

February 17, 2010

Vartak S, Ward MM, Vaughn TE. J Rural Health. 2010;26(1):58-66.

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This article found that the incidence of specific safety problems (as measured by the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators) was similar for both small urban and small rural hospitals. A toolkit for implementing safety measures in rural hospitals has been published previously.

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