Published in the July/August Issue of Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
Patient safety event-reporting systems are found in all hospitals and are a mainstay of efforts to detect potentially critical events and quality problems. Initial reports usually come from the personnel directly involved in an event or the actions leading up to it, such as the nurse or physician caring for a patient when an error occurred, rather than management or patient safety professionals.
On January 19, 2009, regulations implementing the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act became effective. The legislation provides confidentiality and privilege protections for patient safety information when healthcare providers work with new expert entities known as Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has also launched a multi-year effort to develop common definitions and reporting formats for patient safety events in order to facilitate aggregation of patient safety information.
to read the full article please visit
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
No comments:
Post a Comment