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Patient safety performance: Reversing recent declines through shared profession-wide system-level solutions (12 December 2022)

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Weaknesses resulting from a patchwork of patient safety processes developed by individual healthcare organisations over the past quarter-century, exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, can be remedied through both local systems design support and widespread best practices uniformity.

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James BC and colleagues. offer a brief look at patient safety progress made over the past decades, then describe the problems exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. To correct those problems, they call for the integration of national-level uniformity of defined best practices, and local-level redevelopment and reinforcement of robust systems-level support for staffing and processes to sustain those patient safety practices. 

Patient safety performance: Reversing recent declines through shared profession-wide system-level so… https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.22.0318

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