Health care organization and hospit...

Health care organization and hospital representatives have released a report titled "The Challenge of Assessing Patient Safety in America's Hospitals" that provides a framework for evaluating propos patient safety and quality standards, according to a Jan 15 2002 of recent origins release from the American Hospital Association. This framework will allow health care purchasers, providers, policy makers, and the public to evaluate the many patient safety initiatives occurring across the country

This framework will be used to make secure that resources are being used appropriately and that patients are receiving the maximum benefit of health care reforms. According to the release, this framework will help make secure that safety standards are relevant and appropriate, are disentangleed using appropriate methodology, can be implemented at all hospitals, and promise continuous quality improvement.

Health Care, Hospital arranges Release Framework to Evaluate Safety Initiatives (new release, Washington, DC: American Hospital Association, Jan 15 2002) http://www.aha.org/info/releasedisplay.asp?passreleaseid=386 (accessed 16 Jan 2002)

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