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Patient Safety Act: HHS is in the Process of Implementing the Act, so Its Effectiveness Cannot Yet be Implemented

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By Linda T. Kohn (au)
Year: 2010
Pages: 31
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1437928609

Description

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated in 1999 that preventable medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths a year among hospital patients in the U.S. Congress passed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (the Patient Safety Act) to encourage health care providers to voluntarily report information on medical errors and other events -- patient safety data -- for analysis and to facilitate the development of improvements in patient safety using these data. This report describes progress by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to implement the Patient Safety Act by (1) creating a list of Patient Safety Organizations (PSO) so that these entities are authorized under the Patient Safety Act to collect patient safety data from health care providers to develop improvements in patient safety, and (2) implementing the network of patient safety databases (NPSD) to collect and aggregate patient safety data. These actions are important to complete before the law's effectiveness can be evaluated. Figures.

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