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Work in Partnership With Your Health Professional to Prevent Medical Errors

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  1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2000). 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors. Patient Fact Sheet (AHRQ Publication No. 00-P038). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Other Works Consulted

  • HealthGrades (2006). HealthGrades Quality Study: Third Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. Golden, CO: HealthGrades. Also available online: http://www.healthgrades.com/media/dms/pdf/PatientSafetyInAmericanHospitalsStudy2006.pdf.

  • Leape LL, Berwick DM (2005). Five years after To Err Is Human: What have we learned? JAMA, 293(19): 2384–2390.

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Last Updated: October 02, 2006
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