Patient safety: the patient's role.

D. Ford

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Patient safety: the patient's role.

February 14, 2007

Ford D. World Hosp Health Serv. 2006;42(3):45-48.

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The author shares his family's experience with medical error and provides recommendations for how patients and families can play a role in their own safety.

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