A new frontier in healthcare risk management: working to reduce avoidable patient suffering.
Card AJ, Klein VR. A new frontier in healthcare risk management: Working to reduce avoidable patient suffering. J Healthc Risk Manag. 2016;35(3):31-7. doi:10.1002/jhrm.21207.
Patient harm related to health care can be physical, financial, or emotional. This commentary discusses the role of risk management in reducing avoidable patient harm and solutions such as root cause analysis to identify system-level improvements.