期刊
HEALTH AFFAIRS
卷 37, 期 11, 页码 1736-1743出版社
PROJECT HOPE
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0738
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资金
- Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Services Research and Development Service (HSRD) [CRE-12-033, USA 14-274]
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [R01HS022087, R18HS017820]
- VA National Center for Patient Safety
- Houston VA HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety [CIN 13-413]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Institute of Medicine's To Err Is Human, published in 1999, represented a watershed moment for the US health care system. The report dramatically raised the profile of patient safety and stimulated dedicated research funding to this essential aspect of patient care. Highly effective interventions have since been developed and adopted for hospital-acquired infections and medication safety, although the impact of these interventions varies because of their inconsistent implementation and practice. Progress in addressing other hospital-acquired adverse events has been variable. In the past two decades additional areas of safety risk have been identified and targeted for intervention, such as outpatient care, diagnostic errors, and the use of health information technology. In sum, the frequency of preventable harm remains high, and new scientific and policy approaches to address both prior and emerging risk areas are imperative. With the increasing availability of electronic data, investments must now be made in developing and testing methods to routinely and continuously measure the frequency and types of patient harm and even predict risk of harm for specific patients. This progress could lead us from a Bronze Age of rudimentary tool development to a Golden Era of vast improvement in patient safety.
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