Improving patient safety through the systematic evaluation of patient outcomes
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Improving patient safety through the systematic evaluation of patient outcomes.
Despite increased advocacy for patient safety and several large-scale programs designed to reduce preventable harm, most notably surgical checklists, recent data evaluating entire health systems suggests that we are no further ahead in improving patient safety and that hospital complications are no less frequent now than in the 1990s. We suggest that the failure to systematically measure patien...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0008-428X
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.007811