Indiana is second state to require mistake reporting
Accreditation Connection, June 5, 2006
Indiana hospitals must now report serious medical mistakes, becoming the second state behind Minnesota to require it, according to an article in Fort Wayne magazine.
The Indiana Hospital & Health Association is starting the Indiana Patient Safety Center July 1, in collaboration with Indiana University School of Medicine, Purdue University's Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, and the Indiana State Medical Association.
"Patient safety is moving away from 'If the wrong leg is cut off, who did it?' to finding out how we approach what it is that caused the fault and building a system to prevent it from happening again and sharing [the system] widely in the field," Bob Morr, vice president of the association, says in the article.
Indiana is one of a handful of states to develop patient-safety centers in response to the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
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