The perinatal patient safety project: new can be great!
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Introduction Although in 2000, the frequency of birth injury claims filed in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region (KPNC) had remained stable for years, their cost had risen dramatically. In response to this trend, the KP Board of Directors assigned Bruce Merl, MD, Director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) MedicalLegal Affairs, and Julie Nunes, KPNC Regional Risk Management Director, the task of reducing the cost of these claims. Also assembled to address this problem was an expert group consisting of Susan Smarr, MD (obstetrician and Assistant Physician-in-Chief The Perinatal Patient Safety Project: New Can Be Great!
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The southern california perinatal patient safety project.
By Jean Sandoval, RN, MSN Janice McDonald, RN, MBA Suzanne Graham, RN, PhD The Northern California Perinatal Patient Safety Project (PPSP) won the Lawrence Patient Safety New Project Award in 2004 (See “The Perinatal Patient Safety Project: New Can Be Great!” in The Permanente Journal 2005 Winter;9(1):25-7 and “Perinatal Patient Safety Project” in The Permanente Journal 2005 Spring;9(2):28-33)....
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Permanente journal
دوره 9 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005