A push is underway to create a National Patient Safety Board modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent federal agency that investigates plane crashes and other transportation disasters. But unlike the NTSB, some patient safety advocates say, the current proposal is toothless and wouldn’t provide transparency about the nation’s hospitals.
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?
Unlike the transportation board, some patient safety advocates say, the current proposal is toothless and wouldn’t provide transparency about the nation’s hospitals.
/PRNewswire/ MedStar Health has received a four-year, nearly $4M grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to establish the Patient.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hid hospital ratings on surgical complications from public view for the first half of 2020 due to COVID-19 and proposed to continue the practice for data through mid-2021.