AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Tools for primary care patient safety: a narrative review.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



Tools for primary care patient safety: a narrative review.

Spencer R, Campbell SM. BMC Fam Pract. 2014;15:166.

Proven methods to track progress in ambulatory care safety are lacking. This review explores what is knownabout monitoring errors in family practice and highlights tools available to measure safety in primary care to inform the development of an evidence-based patient safety toolkit for use in this setting.

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