Rural community members' perceptions of harm from medical mistakes: a High Plains Research Network (HPRN) study.

Rebecca F. Van Vorst; Rodrigo Araya-Guerra; Maret Felzien; Douglas Fernald; Nancy C. Elder; Christine Duclos; John M. Westfall

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Rural community members' perceptions of harm from medical mistakes: a High Plains Research Network (HPRN) study.

March 21, 2007

Van Vorst RF, Araya-Guerra R, Felzien M, et al. J Am Board Fam Med. 2007;20(2):135-43.

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The authors used community-based participatory research to learn about consumers' definitions of medical errors and types of harm from these errors.

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