About the Authors
- Jonathan M. Spector
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Spector, Priya Agrawal
* E-mail: jmspector@partners.org
Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Priya Agrawal
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Spector, Priya Agrawal
Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Bhala Kodkany
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Affiliation Women's and Children's Health Research Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Karnataka, India
- Stuart Lipsitz
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Affiliation Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Angela Lashoher
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Affiliation Department of Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Gerald Dziekan
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Affiliation Department of Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Rajiv Bahl
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Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Mario Merialdi
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Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Matthews Mathai
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Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Claire Lemer
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Affiliation London Deanery, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Enfield, United Kingdom
- Atul Gawande
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Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
AAG receives royalties for books and essays focused on patient safety and medicine. CL receives royalties for a book focused on healthcare management. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JMS AAG. Performed the experiments: JMS PA BK AL GD AAG. Analyzed the data: PA SL JMS AAG. Wrote the paper: JMS PA AAG BK SL AL GD RB M. Merialdi M. Mathai CL.