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Patient Safety and Quality: Improving the Standard of Care for All
Patient Safety and Quality: Improving the Standard of Care for All
Pages 96-99
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Since 1970, the realization has grown that a patient-centered culture is a feature of safe and reliable health care systems, and patient safety has come to be a core competency in the health professions and in health care systems. Nevertheless, errors continue to occur because of the expense and effort required to change not only organizational systems but also organizational cultures.
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By rigorously collecting preoperative affordability, and effectiveness of health care and postoperative data, the NSQIP led to new A 3-year-old child with in the United States. Since its creation, AHRQ benchmarks for quality care, contributing to a birth defects caused by has concentrated on three core topics -- data 47 percent drop in postoperative mortality by the drug thalidomide (Science Photo Library®)
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To encourage providers to report patient Organization to Ensure Quality The report -- which built on results from an safety events without fear of increased liability or earlier Harvard University study to estimate that Based on recommendations by President Bill risk, the act also provided federal confidentiality 44,000–98,000 deaths occur per year from medical Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer protections for patient safety information. The act's errors in the United States -- launched the patient Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, emphasis on evidence and analysis has allowed for a safety movement.
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the patient safety field -- that most errors represent systems failures rather than Shutterstock® iStock® individual failures -- has led to a major rethinking of how care is organized and delivered, but achieving a safe and reliable health care system will require establishment of a framework for both continuous improvement and sustainability. 99 20220909 NAM 50th Book Pages 90-115-RTP.indd 99 9/13/22 7:41 PM
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