Covering Health: Patient Safety.
Covering Health: Patient Safety. Jaklevic MC. HealthJournalism.org. Columbia, MO: Association of Health Care Journalists; 2010-2025.
Jaklevic MC. HealthJournalism.org. Columbia, MO: Association of Health Care Journalists; 2010-2025.
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, systemic failures in addressing clinician criminal conduct and the harms of private equity in health care.