Veterans Health Care: Veterans Health Administration Processes for Responding to Reported Adverse Events.

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Veterans Health Care: Veterans Health Administration Processes for Responding to Reported Adverse Events.

September 5, 2012

Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office; August 2012. Publication GAO-12-827R.

This report describes an analysis of incident reporting systems used in Veterans Health Administration medical centers to explore how the collected information is acted upon.

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