Patient safety tool helps ID hospital errors.

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Patient safety tool helps ID hospital errors.

January 16, 2013

Clark C. HealthLeaders Media. December 2012.

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This magazine article discusses how the AHRQ common formats tool has been used to identify, track, and report near misses in hospitals.

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