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References

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Available at: https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/. Accessed January 28, 2011.

American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals database. Chicago: Health Forum; multiple years (data used from 2006 and 2010). 

Brach C, Lenfestey N, Roussel A, et al. Will it work here? A decisionmaker's guide to adopting innovations. (Prepared by RTI International under Contract No. 233-02-0090). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2008. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0051. Available at: http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/content.aspx?id=2380. 

Church AH, Waclawski J. Designing and using organizational surveys: a seven-step process. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1998.  

Improvement methods: the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. Washington, DC: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. Available at: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/HowToImprove . Accessed January 28, 2011.  

Langley C, Nolan K, Nolan T, et al. The improvement guide: a practical approach to improving organizational performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1996.

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