AHRQ's 2009 annual conference—research to reform: achieving health system change. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. September 13-16, 2009; North Bethesda Marriott, Bethesda, MD.
The Eighth National Quality Colloquium. Harvard University. August 17-20, 2009; Annenberg Hall, Cambridge, MA.
Focus: patient safety, health care reliability, team training, and reducing medical errors.
The high costs of weak compliance with the New York State hospital adverse event reporting and tracking system. Thompson WC Jr. New York, NY: Office of the New York City Comptroller, Office of Policy Management; 2009.
Hospital report card: Ontario 2009. Esmail N, Hazel M. Studies in Health Care Policy. Fraser Institute. Calgary, Alberta, Canada; March 2009. ISSN: 1918-2082. ‘Designed to help patients choose hospitals, this report utilized AHRQ quality indicators to analyze the performance of acute-care hospitals in Ontario.’
Pulse report 2009: safety culture: staff perspectives on American health care. South Bend, IN: Press Ganey Associates, Inc: 2009. ‘… survey of more than 40,000 employees at 75 hospitals’
Safe practices 2009. National Quality Forum. Washington DC: National Quality Forum; 2009.
Health-care–associated infections in hospitals: continuing leadership needed from HHS to prioritize prevention practices and improve data on these infections.
Subcommittee on Health Care, Committee on Finance, US Senate, Government Accountability Office, GAO-09-516T (March 18, 2009) (testimony of Marjorie Kanof, MD).
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