Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare.

Newsletter/Journal

Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare.

March 6, 2005

Middleton, MA: HealthLeaders Media. ISSN: 1553-6637.

Beginning with its inaugural issue in August 2004 and ending in May 2020, Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (PSQH) published bi-monthly. It provided news from the field and articles by industry experts round out the content. PSQH informed patients, clinicians, patient safety officers, risk managers, business leaders, policy makers, educators, and commercial vendors working in all health care settings.

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