An in-service instructor is preparing a presentation for a group of staff nurses about reducing medical errors. The instructor is planning to describe The Leapfrog Group. Which comment would the instructor include?
A) The leading producer of software products in the United States directed at reducing the incidence of medical errors
B) Endorsed the use of computerized physician/provider order entry to assist in reducing medical errors
C) Suggested that quality of care in hospital intensive care units would improve if patients were cared for by their own personal physician
D) An elite group of hospitals who have made safety management organization-wide, comprehensive, pervasive, and visible
B
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