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Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital

Alan J. Forster, Tim R. Asmis, Heather D. Clark, Ghiath Al Saied, Catherine C. Code, Sharon C. Caughey, Kevin Baker, James Watters, Jim Worthington and Carl van Walraven
CMAJ April 13, 2004 170 (8) 1235-1240; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1030683
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vol. 170 no. 8 1235-1240
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1030683
PubMed 
15078845
History 
  • Published online April 12, 2004.
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  1. Alan J. Forster,
  2. Tim R. Asmis,
  3. Heather D. Clark,
  4. Ghiath Al Saied,
  5. Catherine C. Code,
  6. Sharon C. Caughey,
  7. Kevin Baker,
  8. James Watters,
  9. Jim Worthington,
  10. Carl van Walraven
  1. From the Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont. (Forster, Clark, Watters, van Walraven); the Departments of Medicine (Forster, Asmis, Clark, Code, van Walraven), Surgery (Al Saied, Watters) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (Caughey, Baker), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ont. (Worthington); and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ont. (van Walraven)
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