Title
Keeping Patients Safe: How Has the Patient Safety Movement Evolved in the U.S.?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-23-2020
Publication Title
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
First page number:
1
Last page number:
5
Abstract
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network, patient safety is dened as “freedom from accidental or preventable injuries produced by medical care” (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], n.d.a). The Institute of Medicine has indicated that patient safety is not dierent from quality healthcare, emphasizing it as an essential domain of the overarching healthcare quality (Erickson et al., 2003). There have been reports and studies on the large amount of deaths that happen each year due to medical errors (Donaldson et al., 2000; James, 2013; Makary & Daniel, 2016). Even though these estimates and the methodology behind calculating these deaths may be questionable, it is undeniable that adverse events are a concern that needs to be addressed (Shojania & Dixon-Woods, 2016). The issue of patient safety poses a risk to the public, thus providing motivation to providers, policymakers, and researchers to pay attention to this issue.
Keywords
Patients safe; Patient safety movement
Disciplines
Health Services Administration | Public Health
Language
English
Repository Citation
Upadhyay, S.
(2020).
Keeping Patients Safe: How Has the Patient Safety Movement Evolved in the U.S.?.
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
1-5.