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Newsletter, July 2023

Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems. He brought it home to us by stating that we are 2 million times safer sitting in an airliner seat than lying in a hospital bed! How did airlines become so safe? Michael A.E.

Patient Safety

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Doctors

To Follow or Not: The Rules About Patient Safety

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

JUNE 17, 2016

One, attributed to the Hippocratic Oath is “Do no harm” as a dictum for medical practice. Another, from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Hospitals states, “The Hospital shall do the sick no harm.” And, communicable diseases identified at the hospital should stay in the hospital.

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Patient Safety Safe Practices Nursing Hospitals

Newsletter, July 2023

To Follow or Not: The Rules About Patient Safety

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