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Since studies began documenting the rising numbers of medical errors in the United States, hospitals across the nation have implemented myriad but often conflicting patient-safety measures. In response to a widespread cry for standardization, health care purchasers, quality-oversight groups, and government agencies have agreed for the first time to endorse a new set of 30 "safe practices" that hospitals should implement to prevent patient injuries and deaths.
"Hospitals have been complaining about thousands of [different] measures in a thousand ways; this [standardization] is a light at the end of the tunnel," said Dr. Charles Denham of Laguna Beach, California, cochair of the committee that developed the practices, which were announced last October by the Washington, D.C.-based National Quality Forum (NQF), a nonprofit membership organization that sets voluntary health care quality standards.
The new guidelines were developed by the NQF Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee and endorsed by...
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