The healthcare industry needs to be more honest about medical errors, a blog by Kathleen Sutcliffe

Summary

Kathleen Sutcliffe is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of a forthcoming book Still not safe: patient safety and the middle-managing of American medicine (Oxford University Press).

Content

This blog discusses the barriers in tackling some of healthcares biggest patient safety problems - medication labelling and drug errors to name just one.

It highlights the need to listen to experts outside of healthcare as localised solutions do not solve the wider, more complex issues of patient safety.