4 Actions to reduce medical errors in U.S. hospitals (20 April 2022)

Summary

Huge numbers of patients suffer avoidable harm in US hospitals each year as a result of unsafe care. In this blog, published in the Harvard Business Review, the authors argue that these numbers could be greatly reduced by taking four actions: Make patient safety a top priority in hospitals’ practices and cultures, establish a National Patient Safety Board, create a national patient and staff reporting mechanism, and turn on EHRs machine learning systems that can alert staff to risky conditions.