Healthcare Innovation April 5, 2024
Focus on HARM initiative aims to reduce the burden on providers of multiple, differing, unaligned patient safety event reporting structures
A 2022 report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General found that 25 percent of Medicare patients were harmed during hospital stays in October 2018, and 43 percent of those were preventable. The National Quality Forum (NQF) has launched a patient safety initiative to address the high rates of avoidable medical errors and preventable patient harms that continue despite decades of efforts to remediate these events.
The Focus on HARM (Harmonizing Accountability in Reporting and Monitoring) initiative will begin by re-examining the most egregious events, often referred to as “Never Events”...
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