To the Editor: I read, with encouragement and hope, Runciman’s timely editorial concerning the pressing need for patient safety education to become an integral part of medical undergraduate curricula.1 I also support his plea for patient safety to now be treated as a full-blooded science.
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- Hyperbaric Medicine Unit, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA.
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- 1. Runciman WB. Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education. Med J Aust 2010; 193: 3-4. <eMJA full text>
- 2. Allnutt MF. Human factors in accidents. Br J Anaesth 1987; 59: 856-864.
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