Patient Safety: Standards Abroad Continually Improving
In the United States, an increased focus on patient safety has literally turned to offering "bribes" to hospital facilities to improve patient caregiving standards in hospital safety. Since the 1999 report "To Err is Human" sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, little progress has been seen in drastically improving patient safety and care in hospitals in the U.S., mainly in hospital-acquired infections. However, patient safety is something that everyone needs to be concerned with - the patient, the healthcare facilitator,...
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