What’s going on with the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act?
Accreditation Connection, July 31, 2006
Modern Healthcare points out that it's been a year since President Bush signed into law the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which is charged with implementing much of the law, keeps saying to watch its Web site for developments, but none are forthcoming, according to an editorial.
"This is a curious delay," the editorial reads. "After all, this law creates a voluntary, confidential system for reporting medical errors; it sounds like it could implement itself. It does call for establishing new groups called patient-safety organizations, which would collect error reports on local or regional levels and then share results with a federal database, where they would be analyzed. But as we have argued, there are already many such organizations doing this work, notably the JCAHO, which has a special federal charge to ensure that care is delivered safely."
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