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Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard of Care.

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, Aspden P, Corrigan JM, Wolcott J, Erickson SM, eds. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2004.

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December 21, 2005

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, Aspden P, Corrigan JM, Wolcott J, Erickson SM, eds. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2004.

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Robust information systems serve as a backbone for both preventing medical error and learning from it. The authors submit that a national information infrastructure will facilitate immediate access to patient information and decision support mechanisms. They also suggest that a byproduct of the infrastructure will be a consistent method for managing patient safety data and the ability to capture it in real time as a result of care.

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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, Aspden P, Corrigan JM, Wolcott J, Erickson SM, eds. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2004.

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