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Advisory: Detecting and Reporting Patient Safety Risks in Virtual Care Delivery
This is a first step in providing nation-wide collaboration to develop an effective process for PSOs to guide their members in the development of effective reporting systems to capture adverse and near-miss events in virtual care.
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