Rural hospital patient safety systems implementation in two states.

Daniel R Longo; John E Hewett; Bin Ge; Shari Schubert

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Rural hospital patient safety systems implementation in two states.

August 29, 2007

Longo DR, Hewett JE, Ge B, et al. The Journal of Rural Health. 2007;23(3).

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This survey examined implementation of patient safety systems in rural hospitals and found that the gap between rural and urban hospitals with regard to use of such systems is narrowing.

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