Becker's Healthcare September 8, 2023
A federal patient safety coordinator should be appointed to advise the president on ways to improve safety at hospitals nationwide — that’s one of the initiatives the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommended in a Sept. 7 report.
“Patient safety is an urgent national public health issue,” the advisory group said in its report, citing data that shows 1 in 4 Medicare patients experience adverse events while hospitalized. “More than 40 percent of these events are determined to be due to preventable errors.”
The council issued four recommendations to improve patient safety nationwide:
- Establish and maintain federal leadership for the improvement of patient safety as a national priority: This involves the establishment of a...
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