A comprehensive patient safety program can significantly reduce preventable harm, associated costs, and hospital mortality.

Richard J. Brilli; Richard E. McClead; Wallace Crandall V; Linda Stoverock; Janet C. Berry; Arthur Wheeler; Terrance Davis

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A comprehensive patient safety program can significantly reduce preventable harm, associated costs, and hospital mortality.

August 21, 2013

Brilli RJ, McClead RE, Crandall W, et al. J Pediatr. 2013;163(6):1638-1645.

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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.

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