Epidemiology of Patient Safety Events in an Academic Teaching Hospital

Background: Adverse events are poor health outcomes caused by medical care rather than the underlying disease process. Voluntary reporting is a key component to adverse event reduction; however, incident reporting systems contain many limitations. The Patient Safety Learning System (PSLS) is an el...

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Main Author: Leeder, Ciera
Other Authors: Forster, Alan
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34294
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5227