KevinMD December 26, 2024
As health care leaders and providers, our ultimate mission is to provide safer care for all—but there’s a flaw in our system. Today, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and ambulatory health care settings, and up to 80 percent of this harm is avoidable. Patients should feel safe when they receive health care. Unfortunately, the pervasiveness of medical harm across all health care settings and disciplines—from diagnostic and medication errors to patient misidentification and avoidable complications—has eroded patients’ trust in U.S. health care systems.
Some medical harm can’t be avoided. When we talk about patient safety, the goal is to eliminate preventable harm. According to the World Health Organization, health systems can accomplish this by...
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