Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital.

Alan J. Forster; Tim R. Asmis; Heather D. Clark; Ghiath Al Saied; Catherine C. Code; Sharon C. Caughey; Kevin Baker; James Watters; Jim Worthington; Carl van Walraven; Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study

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Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital.

March 6, 2005

Forster AJ, Asmis TR, Clark HD, et al. CMAJ. 2004;170(8):1235-40.

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