Leading Insights, Ethics
Preventable Harm Metrics: What Are We Actually Measuring?
Written By: Alexandra Reynolds, MD, FNCS; Krista Lim-Hing, MD; Matthew Jaffa, DO; Julia Durrant, MD
The hospital is increasingly considered to be a dangerous place. Studies cite that as many as 400,000 hospitalized patients a year are exposed to some type of preventable harm (James 2013) with an estimated 40,000 to 200,000 yearly hospital deaths considered preventable (Kavanagh 2017; Gray...