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Improved hospital safety performance and reduced medicolegal risk: An ecological study using 2 Canadian databases

This paper analyzes two Canadian databases, the CMPA and the Discharge Abstract Database, to determine if there was a relationship between in-hospital patient safety events and medico-legal cases involving physicians in Canada. This study is novel in that there are very few like it based on Canadian data and it shows the practical use for medico-legal and patient safety data, which can be used to improve patient safety and quality of care.

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Yang Q, Zhang C, Hines K, Calder LA. Improved hospital safety performance and reduced medicolegal risk: an ecological study using 2 Canadian databases. CMAJ Open [Internet]. 2018 Nov 19 [cited 2018 Nov 23];6(4):E561–6. Available from: http://cmajopen.ca/lookup/doi/10.9778/cmajo.20180077