Patient Safety/Quality Improvement (PS/QI)

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To err is human—to delay is deadly: ten years later, a million lives lost, billions of dollars wasted. http://safepatientprogject.org/pdf/safepatientproject.org-to_delay_is_deadly-2009_05.pdf. Accessed January 6, 2015.

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Hicks RW Becker SC Cousins DD , eds. MEDMARX Data Report: A Report on the Relationship of Drug Names and Medication Errors in Response to the Institute of Medicine’s Call for Action. Rockville, MD: Center for the Advancement of Patient Safety, US Pharmacopeia; 2008.

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Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. 2012. http://health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/patient_safety/. Accessed January 12, 2015.

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/information-safety/indicators. Accessed January 12, 2015.

World Health Organization. Patient safety. http://www.who.int/patientsafety/en/. Accessed January 12, 2015.

Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2001.

Gawande A. The cost conundrum: what a Texas town can teach us about health care. The New Yorker. June 1, 2009. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum. Accessed January 12, 2015.

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements. September 28, 2014. http://www.acgme.org/acgmeweb/Portals/0/PFAssets/ProgramRequirements/CPRs_07012015.pdf. Accessed January 12, 2015.