McKnight's September 12, 2023
The White House should create a national patient safety team to help reduce high levels of dangerous care in the medical system, presidential advisers recommended on Sept. 8.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is urging the White House to form a patient safety team to help reduce high levels of dangerous care in the US medical system. In a report released last week, the group suggested that President Joe Biden should appoint a coordinator to work across multiple government agencies. The initiative should include a multidisciplinary patient safety team, according to the document.
Ideally, the group would focus on medication prescription errors and hospital-acquired infections. The group said progress on those areas has been “unacceptably slow,”...
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