Progress in patient safety: a glass fuller than it seems.

Peter Pronovost; Robert Wachter

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Progress in patient safety: a glass fuller than it seems.

March 13, 2014

Pronovost P, Wachter R. Am J Med Qual. 2014;29(2):165-9.

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This commentary examines the effectiveness of global trigger tools in tracking safety progress and advocates for advancing measurement science to detect safety efforts' impact over time.

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