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2. Patient Safety Competencies Framework. Canadian Patient Safety Institute. cited December 7, 2009. Available from: www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca/English/education/safetyCompetencies/Pages/KeyMessages.aspx
3. For more on the role of communication and patient safety please see the Communication for Patient Safety module (not required as part of this module, but supplementary information).
4. Reporting and responding to adverse events: A medical liability perspective. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Medical Protective Association; 2009. www.cmpa-acpm.ca/cmpapd04/docs/submissions_papers/com_reporting_and_responding_to_adverse_events-e.cfm accessed August 2, 2011
5. Disclosure Working Group. Canadian Disclosure Guidelines. Edmonton, AB: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; 2008
6. From Wilson v. Swanson, [1956] S.C.R. 804 (S.C.C.) at 812
7. CMA Code of Ethics (Update 2004) policybase.cma.ca/PolicyPDF/PD04-06.pdf accessed August 2, 2011
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