Focus on 4 Areas to Promote Patient Safety at Your Organization

HealthLeaders Media September 15, 2020
Christopher Cheney

A national push involving more than two dozen organizations is seeking to ramp up patient safety efforts.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– Two decades after publication of the landmark report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, patient safety remains a vexing challenge in healthcare.

– A new national “action plan” calls for greater coordination and cooperation between organizations that are working on patient safety.

– The action plan has four focal points and 17 recommendations.

A coalition of 27 organizations convened by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has launched an initiative to improve coordination of patient safety work nationwide.

Patient safety has been a pressing issue in healthcare since 1999, with the publication of the landmark report To Err...

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