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Quality Assurance, Patient and Provider Safety

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Learn about the need for and history of patient safety

For maximum impact, it is recommended that the case study and questions found on page xxxiii are reviewed before reading this chapter.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Arti Ori MD

  2. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld MD, MPH (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Director Education Research)

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Correspondence to Jesse M. Ehrenfeld MD, MPH .

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Perioperative Services,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Segal

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Ori, A., Ehrenfeld, J.M. (2016). Quality Assurance, Patient and Provider Safety. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Urman, R., Segal, S. (eds) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11083-7_31

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