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85 Practices Find A Safe Place to Share Patient Safety Stories
May 13, 2015
Duration: 2:24
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A “learning community” came together among the primary care practices affiliated with Boston Children’s Hospital. Now they all share cautionary tales and ideas for fixes that make everybody’s patients safer.
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