Covering Health: Patient Safety.

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Covering Health: Patient Safety.

March 25, 2024

Jaklevic MC. HealthJournalism.org. Columbia, MO: Association of Health Care Journalists; 2010-2024.

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The role media plays in raising awareness of patient safety issues in a timely and appropriate manner is consequential. This series instructs writers to communicate on medical error and quality topics in a high-quality professional style with discernment of the content being reported. Series contributions include discussions on medical error statistics, patient safety indicator weakness post-COVID and systemic failures in addressing clinician criminal conduct.

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