,,,Room for improvement : Strong patient safety systems could limit health, social and economic harms from medical error

Room for improvement : Strong patient safety systems could limit health, social and economic harms from medical error


 

Publication Date: January 2009

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Author(s): Annalijn Conklin; Anna-Marie Vilamovska; Han de Vries; Evi Hatziandreu

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Type: Brief

Abstract:

RAND Europe reviewed the problem of patient harm in Europe, assessed expected effects of three policy action areas to improve safety and modelled the potential health benefits that could be achieved by reducing numbers of harmful events.