The most powerful incentive for reducing medical errors is to align payments for service with the successful provision of safe, high quality care, the president of the nation’s leading advocate for health care quality and safety told a United States Senate Committee on June 11.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Joint Commission President Dennis S. O’Leary, M.D., outlined six crucial strategies for the creation of a true culture of safety within health care institutions.
“The Joint Commission, like others, is deeply concerned that the number of serious medical errors remains unacceptably high, despite the focus of significant national attention on patient safety in recent years,” says Dr. O’Leary.