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Patient Safety: Exploring Quality of Care in the US.

August 10, 2016

ProPublica.

This website provides resources exploring patient safety challenges from various perspectives, including feature length articles and measurement tools like the Surgeon Scorecard to support a community focused on driving safety improvement.

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