Development of a medication safety and quality survey for small rural hospitals. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Development of a medication safety and quality survey for small rural hospitals. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published December 2017

Development of a medication safety and quality survey for small rural hospitals.

Winterstein AG, Johns TE, Campbell KN, Libby J, Pannell B. J Patient Saf. 2017;13:249-254.

Improving medication safety requires effective mechanisms for detecting medication errors. The authors describe the development and deployment of a survey tool designed to evaluate medication safety across 13 critical access hospitals in Florida.

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