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Serious Safety Events: Getting to Zero. Second Edition.

September 30, 2015

Hoppes M, Mitchell JL. Chicago, IL: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; October 2014.

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This white paper defines serious safety events and describes methods to measure the effectiveness of error prevention initiatives.

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