CNN

A national safety board made transportation safer and could do the same for health care, advocates say

People concerned about the safety of patients often compare health care to aviation. Why, they ask, can’t hospitals learn from medical errors the way airlines learn from plane crashes? That’s the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Calls for national patient safety board reemerge

U.S. representatives have reintroduced bipartisan legislation to establish a National Patient Safety Board, a team that would be housed within HHS and dedicated to preventing medical errors. Reps.
USA Today

Patient safety awareness focus of new report as preventable medical errors kill thousands

Patient safety likely remains the nation's third leading cause of death and addressing it needs to be a key national priority, a presidential panel said this week. The panel released a report ...
Business Wire

Bipartisan Legislation Makes Patient Safety a National Priority

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Representatives Nanette Barragán (D-CA) and Michael Burgess (R-TX) have announced the reintroduction of the National Patient Safety Board Act, legislation to ...
webtv.un.org

Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety: A Global Imperative for Health Systems

Dr. Rudi Eggers is Director, Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters; Dr. Irina Papieva is Technical Officer, Patient Safety Flagship, Integrated Health Services, WHO ...