Patient Safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Current Status and Opportunities for Improvement

doi:10.7249/RR891

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DOI	10.7249/RR891
报告编号	RR-891-BLC
	Patient Safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Current Status and Opportunities for Improvement
	Eric C. Schneider; M. Susan Ridgely; Dmitry Khodyakov; Lauren E. Hunter; Zachary Predmore; Robert S. Rudin
	2014
出版年	2014
页数	62
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Twenty years ago, Betsy Lehman, an award-winning health columnist for the Boston Globe, received a massive overdose of chemotherapy at one of the nation's most prestigious cancer hospitals. The discovery of these and other avoidable errors and adverse events was a wake-up call. During the 1990s, health care leaders and researchers began studying and documenting the scale of the safety problem in health care. However, urgent questions about patient safety remain unanswered. To begin to answer these questions, the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction commissioned a RAND study about the landscape of patient safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. RAND researchers interviewed expert observers (patients, health care leaders, academic experts, advocates, and others) about progress to date and future opportunities to produce safer patient care. These expert observers asserted that some progress has been made in Massachusetts but that it has mostly set the stage for the vital work that remains. Key areas for progress include standardization of care, improvements in communication across settings, reducing diagnostic error, and transferring the lessons learned in the hospital to other care settings. This report summarizes the results of the interviews and suggests several questions that could guide the design of an organized effort to improve patient safety in Massachusetts.
英文关键词	Massachusetts Evidence Based Health Practice Patient Safety Medical Professionals Hospitals Health Information Technology
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来源平台	Rand Corporation
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/3917
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eric C. Schneider,M. Susan Ridgely,Dmitry Khodyakov,et al. Patient Safety in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Current Status and Opportunities for Improvement:RAND Corporation,2014.