The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has published new evidence on practices that could improve patient safety. The report lists 73 patient safety practices that are likely to improve patient safety and describes 11 that the researchers considered highly proven to work, but are not performed routinely in the hospitals and nursing homes across the country. The evidence report was compiled at the University of California San Francisco/Stanford University.
To compile the 640-page report, researchers examined the medical and scientific literature on safety practices and consulted with health care experts. The report focuses on issues relevant to care delivered in hospitals and on prevalent diseases and procedures rather than on specific diagnoses.
"We are sharing these findings with health care administrators, medical directors, health professionals, and others who are responsible for patient safety programs in the institutions where they work," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. "The nation's health care leaders need to know what the science says about where the opportunities exist to make patient care safer right now".
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