8 Strategies for Hospitals, Clinics to Prevent Medical Errors - Heartland Health Research Institute

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edited January 2018 in Quality Street

Eight strategies that hospitals and clinics can adopt to make a big difference in reducing medical errors:
1. Embrace a culture of safety
2. Treat staff burnout as an organizational priority
3. Adopt a structure to improve patient handoffs
4. Develop and nurture a patient and family-led advisory council
5. Be vigilant about reducing infections
6. Work to avoid diagnostic errors
7. To avoid medication errors, find opportunities to include pharmacists
8. Electronic health records (EHR) systems must be interoperable

Download factsheet: https://hhri.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Fact-Sheet-8-Strategies-for-Hospitals-and-Clinics-Final.pdf (PDF)

Heartland Health Research Institute (HHRI) is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research organization based in Clive, Iowa

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