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Newsletter, September 2022

Patient Safety Movement

Medication harm accounts for 50% of the overall preventable harm in medical care. $42 42 billion of total health expenditure worldwide can be avoided if medication errors are prevented. This statistic includes doctors and nurses who are not privy to this data for their own hospitals.

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a learning ecosystem and shared accountability system to ensure that evidence-based practices are implemented and goals for reduced harms and risks of harm for all Americans are realized. 1B: Establish a multidisciplinary National Patient Safety Team (NPST) and ensure inclusion of persons from populations most affected.