Perception of front-line healthcare providers toward patient safety: A preliminary study in a University Hospital in Egypt

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Abbas, Hanan Abdullah Ezzat ^a   Bassiuni, Nora Ahmed ^b   Baddar, Fatma Mostafa ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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