• Toolkit
  • Published May 2017

Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD.

Ambulatory surgery centers provide care to growing numbers of patients. This toolkit draws from AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to help ambulatory surgical center teams develop communication and teamwork skills to reduce infections and other iatrogenic harms.

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