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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)
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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