Functions
Patient safety organizations may use several approaches to reducing adverse events:
- Collect data on the prevalence and individual details of errors.
- Analyze sources of error by root cause analysis.
- Propose and disseminate methods for error prevention.
- Design and conduct pilot projects to study safety initiatives, including monitoring of results.
- Raise awareness and inform the public, health professionals, providers, purchasers and employers.
- Conduct fundraising and provide funding for research and safety projects
- Advocate for regulatory and legislative changes.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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