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Quality: A Process or an Outcome? It’s not what you may think…

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  1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Patient Safety Primers: Never Events. Available at: www.psnet.ahrq.gov/primer.aspx?primerID=3. Accessed November 2, 2012.

  2. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Hospital-Acquired Conditions (Present on Admission Indicator). Available at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalAcqCond. Accessed November 2, 2012.

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  1. Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 Pacific St. NE, Box 356500, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Michael J. Lee MD

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Note from the Editor-in-Chief: We are pleased to introduce readers of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® to “On Patient Safety,” a new quarterly column. The goal of this section is to explore a broad range of topics that pertain to patient safety. We welcome reader feedback on all of our columns and articles; please send your comments to eic@clinorthop.org.

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Lee, M.J. Quality: A Process or an Outcome? It’s not what you may think…. Clin Orthop Relat Res 471, 1097–1099 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-012-2713-9

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