Improving patient safety across a large integrated health care delivery system
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Improving patient safety across a large integrated health care delivery system.
OBJECTIVE Patient safety is moving up the list of priorities for hospitals and health care delivery systems, but improving safety across a large organization is challenging. We sought to create a common patient safety strategy for the Partners HealthCare system, a large, integrated, non-profit health care delivery system in the United States. DESIGN Partners identified a central Patient Safet...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzg075