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This paper adds to an important body of work about patient safety in primary care coming from the US, whose primary care physicians were the world’s early participants in patient safety research, and instrumental in defining what that term (‘patient safety’) means for patients cared for outside hospitals. Reporting systems research has become dominant in the primary care patient safety research world, perhaps because it...
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Improving patient safety: Lessons from the world’s largest national database
Sukhmeet Singh Panesar and Aziz Sheikh
Sukhmeet Singh Panesar Clincial advisor to the Chairman National Patient Safety Agency, London, UK
Aziz Sheikh Professor of Primary Care Research & Development, Centre of Population Health Sciences: GP Se...
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This is an interesting and important article on implementing a medication safety reporting system in the ambulatory setting. Safety reporting is very uncommon in ambulatory care, and more work such as this needs to be done to find out how best to implement reporting so that it is quick and easy, while useful at the same time. In addition, it will be important to expand beyond medication safety since other ambulatory safet...
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