Patients Should Play Bigger Role In Adverse Event Reporting: AHRQ
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Because patients have a perspective on the health care system that providers do not necessarily share, greater efforts should be made to obtain adverse event information directly from them, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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