Perspective
Apr. 26, 2011
Two Steps Back
Patients and patient safety are not to be played as a chip in a political game. By Bryan A. Liang, California Western School of Law and Kimberly Lovett, Kaiser Permanente.
On April 12, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new patient safety initiative, the Partnership for Patients. By 2013, this effort would theoretically reduce hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and readmission rates by 20 percent. Particularly in the context of recent findings, which suggest adverse events are up to 10 times previous estimates and one-third of inpatients suffer negative impact fr...
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