Becker's Healthcare June 5, 2023
Patient safety advocates are urging for the creation of a “National Patient Safety Board” for the healthcare industry to better learn from and prevent medical errors, but they fear current proposals would not give such a board sufficient oversight, according to a June 5 report from KFF Health News.
Two measures to establish a national safety board — a bill proposed in the House in December and a measure that would create such a board via executive order — are loosely modeled off the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been credited with increasing safety in aviation. When an incident happens, the agency probes why it occurred and recommends steps to prevent future issues. The NTSB is able to...
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