Quality Health Care in five steps
Patient safety is one of the Nation’s most pressing health care challenges. An Institute of Medicine report in 1999 estimated that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in U.S. hospitals each year as the result of lapses in patient safety. Wow !!!The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association developed 5 simple steps that you can take to improve the quality of healthcare that you receive.
Step 1. Ask questions if you have doubts or concerns. Ask questions and make sure you understand the answers. Choose a doctor you feel comfortable talking to. Take a relative or friend with you to help you ask questions and understand the answers.
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#1. June 12th, 2008, at 11:12 AM.
Patient safety is one of today’s most troubling health care issues. Improving health care quality and reducing medical mistakes should be of utmost concern to all health care consumers as well as clinicians.