Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety team.

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Published in Health Aff (Millwood) on April 07, 2009

Authors

Peter J Pronovost1, Christine A Goeschel, Kyle L Olsen, Julius C Pham, Marlene R Miller, Sean M Berenholtz, J Bryan Sexton, Jill A Marsteller, Laura L Morlock, Albert W Wu, Jerod M Loeb, Carolyn M Clancy

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. ppronovo@jhmi.edu

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