Patient Safety Act: HHS Is in the Process of Implementing the Act, So Its Effectiveness Cannot Yet be Evaluated

Linda T. Kohn

Jan 2011 · DIANE Publishing

About this ebook

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. In 1999 preventable medical errors caused as many as 98,000 deaths a year among hospital patients in the U.S. Congress passed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSA) to encourage health care providers to voluntarily report info. on medical errors and other events -- patient safety data -- for analysis and to facilitate the development of improvements in patient safety using these data. This report describes progress by HHS and AHRQ to implement the PSA by: (1) creating a list of Patient Safety Org. to collect patient safety data from health care providers to develop improvements in patient safety; and (2) implementing the network of patient safety databases to collect and aggregate patient safety data. Charts and tables.