Becker's Healthcare February 15, 2022
Gabrielle Masson

As patient safety declines amid the pandemic, the U.S. must rebuild a healthcare delivery system in which safety is embedded in every step of a process, with clear metrics that are aggregated, assessed and acted on, according to an analysis published Feb. 12 by The New England Journal of Medicine.

The article was penned by Lee Fleisher, MD, chief medical officer and director at CMS; Michelle Schreiber, MD, deputy director for quality and value at CMS; Denise Cardo, MD, director of the division of healthcare quality promotion for the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Arjun Srinivasan, MD, associate director for healthcare-associated infection prevention programs in the division of healthcare quality promotion at CDC’s National Center...

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