Health Affairs August 26, 2022
With COVID-19 deaths dramatically down from earlier peaks, US health care providers still confront a different nationwide emergency: hospital errors that kill an estimated 150,000 patients annually.
Increasingly, physicians and hospital administrators say fulsome embrace of air-safety principles is likely to be a big part of any solution. But many are rethinking how to make such efforts more viable than in the past.
Long before COVID-19 devastated millions of families and pushed thousands of doctors and nurses nearly to the breaking point, medical leaders sought to learn from the airline industry’s impressive safety record to reduce a veritable epidemic of surgical and other treatment mistakes. Now, with greater stresses on medical staff, supply chains, and safety measures, developing a new...
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