Center for Patient Safety (Drs Weingart, Sullivan, Reid Ponte, and Bierer and Mss Price, Duncombe, Connor, and Conlin) and Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (Mr Powell), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs Weingart and Bierer); South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, Massachusetts (Ms Conley); and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Bierer).
Corresponding Author: Saul N. Weingart, MD, PhD, Center for Patient Safety, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115 ([email protected]).
This research was supported by The Commonwealth Fund and a grant from the National Patient Safety Foundation. The views presented here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of The Commonwealth Fund, its directors, officers, or staff. Dr Weingart was supported in part by a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award (1 K08 HS 11644) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The authors thank our patient safety clinician champions Bette Jeanne Kelly, RN, MN, and Juli Hodi, RN, BSN, OCN, and patient/family safety liaisons Joseph H. Nies, Martie Carnie, Reggie Mead, and Mary Dana Gershanoff.
Accepted for publication: November 10, 2008
