Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Serious Safety Events and Improve Patient Safety Culture
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Quality improvement initiative to reduce serious safety events and improve patient safety culture.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Many thousands of patients die every year in the United States as a result of serious and largely preventable safety events or medical errors. Safety events are common in hospitalized children. We conducted a quality improvement initiative to implement cultural and system changes with the goal of reducing serious safety events (SSEs) by 80% within 4 years at our large, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3566