Patient Safety Trends: 2 to 3 page
Read the article, “ Hospitals as Emerging Leaders in Patient Safety: Lessons Learned and Future Directions,” that discusses patient safety trends in America.
- In a 2 to 3 page paper discuss the following:
- Has patient safety in America improved over the past few decades?
- What are the major patient safety issues in America’s hospitals?
- How does patient safety in America compare with that of similar nations?
- What can policy makers and health managers do to improve patient safety?
Article:
Flanders, S. A., Kaufman, S. R., Saint, S., & Parekh, V. I. (2009). Hospitalists as emerging leaders in patient safety: lessons learned and future directions. Journal of patient safety, 5(1), 3-8.
Answer preview
According to Flanders, Kaufman, Saint, & Parekh, (2009), it is common knowledge that patient safety and quality of health care has gone through a lot of improvement world over especially in the last few decades. This has been attributed to a combination of various factors including technology, improved communication, and medical research, among others. The issue of patient safety has raised a lot of concern as well as widely researched within the medical field especially owing to the high number of deaths resulting from cases of medical errors and the overall increase of health care cost. As a result, the need for improving patient’s safety has increasingly been demanded…
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