4sight Health November 13, 2024
Later this month, we’ll mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Released by the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) on Nov. 29, 1999, the report touched off the modern patient safety movement after the IOM estimated nearly 100,000 people die each year from medical mistakes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Nov. 6 released its latest annual report on healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs. The 2023 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress Report tracks six types of infections acquired by patients in general acute-care hospitals, critical access hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term acute care hospitals. Nearly 4,000 acute-care hospitals reported data to the...
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