JCAHO joins push for tort reform
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, February 17, 2005
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The JCAHO calls for increased attention to patient safety and the prevention of medical injury in its latest white paper, Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Improving the Medical Liability System and Preventing Patient Injury.
The report also emphasizes the importance of communication between patients and practitioners and calls for a patient-centered injury compensation system.
"The ultimate goal is to make healthcare as safe as it can be, while also assuring appropriate redress for patients when this is warranted," said Dennis O'Leary, MD, president of the JCAHO in a press release. "The medical liability system in place today simply falls short of this goal."
The JCAHO developed its white paper with the help of a 29-member expert roundtable, which included Sue Sheridan, co-founder of Consumers Advancing Patient Safety, and Alan C. Woodward, MD, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
To read the white paper, click here.
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