Management

Patient Safety

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In response to a request from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine convened a committee to produce a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety in- formation.
Americans should be able to count on receiving health care that is safe. To achieve this, a new health care delivery system is needed—a system that both prevents errors and learns from them when they occur. The development of such a system requires, first, a commitment by all stakeholders to a culture of safety and, second, improved information systems.
A national health information infrastructure is needed (1) to provide immediate access to complete patient information and decision sup- port tools for clinicians and their patients and (2) to capture patient safety information as a by-product of care and use this information to design even safer delivery systems. Health data standards are both a critical and time-sensitive building block of the national health information infrastructure. The Department of Health and Human Services should be given the lead role in establishing and maintaining a public–private partnership for the promulgation of standards for data that support patient safety.

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: ., 2004

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1-551

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English

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978-0-309-09077-3

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Patient Safety

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