Framework for evaluating patient safety released - Brief Article

AORN Journal,  March, 2002  

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Health care organization and hospital representatives have released a report titled "The Challenge of Assessing Patient Safety in America's Hospitals" that provides a framework for evaluating proposed patient safety and quality standards, according to a Jan 15, 2002, news release from the American Hospital Association. This framework will allow health care purchasers, providers, policy makers, and the public to evaluate the many patient safety initiatives occurring across the country.

This framework will be used to ensure that resources are being used appropriately and that patients are receiving the maximum benefit of health care reforms. According to the release, this framework will help ensure that safety standards are relevant and appropriate, are developed using appropriate methodology, can be implemented by all hospitals, and promise continuous quality improvement.

Health Care, Hospital Groups Release Framework to Evaluate Safety Initiatives (news release, Washington, DC: American Hospital Association, Jan 15, 2002) http://www.aha.org/info/releasedisplay.asp?passreleaseid=386 (accessed 16 Jan 2002).

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