Becker's Healthcare August 18, 2023
Increasing adverse events, hospital-associated infections, and other harm to patients have compounded and now fuel the call for the formation of a national patient safety board. But, with so many established health entities already within the government, will adding one create more complexities than it will oversight?
A bill introduced in the House in December 2022 proposes such a body loosely modeled off the National Transportation Safety Board. The group behind the efforts for the board’s creation note in a document that it still would not be the “sole solution” needed to properly address patient safety issues nationally, but rather is designed to “augment” the work of other federal agencies and patient safety organizations.
“The goal of the National...
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