Chief Healthcare Executive September 12, 2023
A presidential advisory panel recommends the White House take action to lower the number of harmful events in hospitals. Patient advocates offered praise.
It’s time for President Biden to lead a “transformational” initiative to improve patient safety in hospitals, according to a key advisory panel.
Calling patient safety “an urgent national public health issue,” the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has issued a report calling on the Biden administration to take steps to reduce preventable mistakes. Significantly, the council urges the president to make improving patient safety a national priority.
The council’s 35-page report makes several recommendations, including establishing a national patient safety coordinator reporting to the president.
The White House should also form a multidisciplinary group...
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