Patient safety
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patient-safety-219-2918093
title:
Patient safety
text:
Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of error and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events. The magnitude of avoidable adverse events, often known as patient safety incidents, experienced by patients was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported significant numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impa
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of medical error
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_safety
date created:
2006-07-01T03:19:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T13:25:10Z
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