A comprehensive patient safety program can significantly reduce preventable harm, associated costs, and hospital mortality.
Brilli RJ, McClead RE, Crandall W, et al. A comprehensive patient safety program can significantly reduce preventable harm, associated costs, and hospital mortality. J Pediatr. 2013;163(6):1638-1645. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.06.031.
The focus of safety programs is shifting from targeting individual types of errors to building systems to ensure safety across multiple domains. In this study from a children's hospital, implementation of a broad-based organizational safety improvement program that emphasized safety culture resulted in a sustained decrease in different types of preventable harm over a 3-year period.