Improving Patient Safety: What States Can Do About Medical Errors

This briefing paper synthesizes a discussion held among key policy officials in June 2000, at NASHP’s Flood Tide Forum II. The brief examines current federal, congressional, and state activities; proposes roles for states; and identifies actions that foundations and others could take.

Contents
Overview
Background
 Patient Safety: How Significant a Problem for States?
 What is happening at the Federal level and What Does that Mean for States?
 Discussion
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