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Partners in prevention; Patient Safety Awareness Week aims to help consumers head off medical errors.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 08-MAR-04
Format: Online - approximately 870 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Partners in prevention; Patient Safety Awareness Week aims to help consumers head off medical errors.(Special Feature)(National Patient Safety Foundation)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mike Colias

Since the watershed Institute of Medicine report on medical errors was released in 1999, hospitals have formed steering committees, added safety administrators and hired consultants in an effort to correct the systemic flaws that lead to medication errors and wrong-site surgeries.

Yet safety advocates say this work often is invisible to a key constituency: the patients. After all, the finished product is, one hopes, an event that never happens. The third annual Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 7-13) offers a prime opportunity for hospitals and systems to bring patients and their families into the fold.

"There's a real effort to get patients involved,'' says Timothy Flaherty, a radiologist from Neenah, Wis., and chairman of the National Patient Safety Foundation, or NPSF, which is organizing the event...

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