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Advancing Patient Safety Through the Practice of Managerial Epidemiology

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After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

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    Differentiate between medical error and patient safety.

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    Interpret a patient safety indicator.

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    Cite the advances and disadvantages of patient safety indicators according to source of data for the indicator.

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    Identify risk factors for patient safety.

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    Design a system based upon epidemiologic principles to promote patient safety in a health care organization.

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Oleske, D.M. (2009). Advancing Patient Safety Through the Practice of Managerial Epidemiology. In: Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0164-4_10

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