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Identifying patients in hospital: are more adverse events waiting to happen?
  1. D C Perry,
  2. S J Scott
  1. University Hospital Aintree, Fazakerley, Liverpool, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 MrD C Perry
 SHO Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK; danperry{at}doctors.org.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/qshc.2006.022202

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    • Competing interests: None.