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Patient safety: a view from Down Under.

Dunn KL, Moulden A, McDougall P, Bowes G

Clinical Quality and Safety Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia. Karen.dunn@rch.org.au

The patient safety program at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne has been running for more than 10 years. The hospital is in the State of Victoria, a state that has a long history of investigating child death, enacting legislation to reduce childhood injury, and providing a centralized tertiary care service. The close interaction between the hospital and the community provides opportunities for shared learning in pediatric patient safety to continually improve childhood outcomes.

Published 27 November 2006 in Pediatr Clin North Am, 53(6): 1217-30.
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