Patient Safety: Investigating and Reporting Serious Clinical Incidents.

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Patient Safety: Investigating and Reporting Serious Clinical Incidents.

March 15, 2017

Kelsey R. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL; 2017. ISBN: 9781498781169.

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Research is increasingly focusing on patient safety in primary care. This book discusses the importance of detecting and assessing mistakes that result in patient harm and describes how to conduct a root cause analysis to investigate clinical incidents in the primary care setting.

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