NEJM July 23, 2020
Twenty years of research and effort has established patient safety as a core health care responsibility, but new approaches suggest a need for expansion of ways to define the terminology, the scope of the challenge, and the implementation of models for success.
Summary
A leading Chief Safety Officer shares insights on the foundation of patient safety developed over the past 2 decades, and points to innovations that are changing key concepts. Leaders are now looking beyond just the patient to include safety for clinicians and caregivers; beyond learning from what went wrong to learning from what went right; beyond physical and medical harm to include psychological...
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