Development of a medication safety and quality survey for small rural hospitals.

Almut G. Winterstein; Thomas E. Johns; Kyle N. Campbell; Joel Libby; Bob Pannell

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Development of a medication safety and quality survey for small rural hospitals.

December 6, 2017

Winterstein AG, Johns TE, Campbell KN, et al. J Patient Saf. 2017;13(4):249-254.

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Improving medication safety requires effective mechanisms for detecting medication errors. The authors describe the development and deployment of a survey tool designed to evaluate medication safety across 13 critical access hospitals in Florida.

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