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Research Activities: Online Newsletter Summarizes study findings relevant to medical errors and patient safety
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 74: The Effect of Health Care Working Conditions on Patient Safety Technical Review, No. 5: Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data—The Patient Safety Indicators Technical Review, No. 13: Empirical Evaluation of the Association Between Methodological Shortcomings and Estimates of Adverse Events
AHRQ's Patient Safety Initiative: Building Foundations, Reducing Risk (Interim Report to the Senate Committee on Appropriations)
Can You Minimize Health Care Costs by Improving Patient Safety?Web Conference, September 20, 30, and October 1, 2002 How Safe Is Our Healthcare System? What States Can Do to Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medical ErrorsWorkshop Brief, March 20-22, 2000 Making the Health Care System SaferPatient Safety Research Conference, March 2-4, 2003 Making the Health Care System SaferPatient Safety Research Conference, September 28-29, 2004
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