Rating recommendations for consumers about patient safety: Sense, common sense, or nonsense?

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 206-215

  Weingart, Saul N ^a,b,c   Morway, Laurinda ^a   Brouillard, Daniela ^e   Cleary, Angela ^e   Eng, Terry K ^e   Saadeh, Mark G ^e   Seger, Andrew C ^e   Bates, David W ^b   Leape, Lucian L ^d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Joint Commission   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; SAFETY; SELF CARE; STANDARD;

HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SELF CARE;

EID: 65349096258     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(09)35028-x     Document Type: Article

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