COVID-19 and Patient Safety: Time to Tap Into Our Investment in High Reliability
Jason S. Adelman, Tejal K. Gandhi
Abstract
From the ∗Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center †Department of Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY ‡Press Ganey Associates LLC, Boston, MA. Correspondence: Jason S. Adelman, MD, MS, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 177 Fort Washington Ave, 9GS-328 New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors disclose no conflict of interest.
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