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April 20, 2023

Patient Safety Surveillance Unit. Department of Health, Perth: Western Australia.

This annual report shares the results of Western Australia's sentinel event reporting program. Medication errors were the highest recorded sentinel event in the latest period. The data is placed in the context of the overall data collected over the last 5 years of the program.

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