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Health care providers rarely confront colleagues on mistakes in patient care.
Bar graph showing that more than 40% of doctors and nurses surveyed work with people who show poor clinical judgment and have co-workers who repeatedly take shortcuts that could endanger patients.
Source: Bowman L. Health-care workers seldom call colleagues on mistakes in patient care. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette web site. February 8, 2005. Available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05039/454114.stm.
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