HealthIT Answers March 18, 2021
By Jeffrey Brady, MD, MPH, Director, AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and David Meyers, MD, AHRQ’s Acting Director
Last March, during national Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. As we commemorate PSAW 2021—an annual event organized by our partners at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement —we celebrate the healthcare professionals who worked tirelessly this year to ensure the safety of patients.
The protocols and practices developed over the past two decades by the patient safety field helped delivery systems adapt and innovate to address the pandemic. Without their efforts, the national outcomes of COVID-19 would have been much worse. AHRQ salutes the courage, dedication, collaboration, and resourcefulness...
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