Abstract:Patient safety and quality is concerned with organizational practices and policies that reduce patient harm. Patient safety and quality practices are designed to create an organizational culture of patient safety that emphasizes safety, equity, and a long‐term commitment to positive health outcomes. Patient safety is a popular topic in medicine and nursing, but has not been studied extensively in the communication discipline. Health communication research on patient safety and quality centers primarily on comm… Show more
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