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Safe Surgery Saves Lives Workshop – March 8-9, 2010 - Vancouver, BC

Thanks to our generous sponsors we were able to provide an excellent learning experience to the 150 participants.

• BC Patient Safety and Quality Council
• Western Node of the Safer Healthcare Now Campaign
• Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada
• Health Canada
• The Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Click here to access the workshop plenary, concurrent session presentations and audio recordings.

Tell us what you think about this workshop, about your challenges and successes, and we will do our best to integrate them in the design of our next workshop.