Lessons from Health Care Leaders: Rethinking and Reinvesting in Patient Safety

Commentary from quality and safety leaders on the persistence of adverse events in care delivery — and where health care organizations should go from here.

Summary

Health care quality and safety leaders from a wide range of organizations globally react to seminal articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on the continuing prevalence of preventable harm.

It’s still early in the year, but there’s a good chance that many of us will remember 2023 for the article by David Bates, et al. in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that adverse events remain common during hospital admissions,¹ and the accompanying editorial from Don Berwick urging that...