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Research Activities: Online Newsletter Summarizes study findings relevant to medical errors and patient safety
Agency Press Releases
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 43: Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 208: Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science Series Medication Adherence Interventions: Comparative Effectiveness
Five Steps to Safer Health Care 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
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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