Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

Michael Pugh; James L. Reinertsen

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Reducing harm to patients. Using patient safety dashboards at the board level.

March 28, 2012

Pugh M, Reinertsen JL. Healthcare executive. 2007;22(6):62, 64-5.

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This commentary describes how hospital and health care system board members can develop facility-specific "dashboards" to spur whole-system improvements.

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