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Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program
(CUSP)
- Evaluate culture of safety
- Educate staff on science of safety http://www.jhsph.edu/ctlt/training/patient_safety.html
- Identify defects
- Executive partnership/ adopt a unit
- Learn from one defect per month; implement teamwork and clinical improvement tools;
- Re-Evaluate culture
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