MedCity News July 12, 2023
Reducing errors and improving patient safety have been considered a top priority since the 1999 IOM report “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” was released. While some great strides have been made, it’s been almost 25 years and we are still seeing year-over-year increases in reported errors.
Recently, The Joint Commission released its sentinel event data from 2022. The report describes 1,441 sentinel events in 2022 – a 19% increase from 2021, and a 78% increase from 2020. In January of 2023, a retrospective study of hospitals in Massachusetts was published which found that in a random sample, at least one adverse event was identified in 23.6% of admissions, and preventable adverse events occurred in 6.8% of...
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