Disclosing errors that affect multiple patients.

Roger Chafe; Wendy Levinson; Terrence Sullivan

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Disclosing errors that affect multiple patients.

June 3, 2009

Chafe R, Levinson W, Sullivan T. CMAJ. 2009;180(11):1125-7.

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This commentary describes strategies for disclosing medical errors at an institutional level.

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