Promoting Patient Safety:
An Ethical Basis for Policy Deliberation
January 2001 - December 2002
Launched by former Center deputy director Virginia Ashby Sharpe, this project explores the ethical basis of patient safety reform proposals, and aims to promote ethically informed policy discussions at the federal, state, and institutional levels. The project team includes individuals who became advocates for patient safety following the deaths of family members, as well as scholars, clinicians, and health care administrators. Project meetings have addressed the economics of patient safety and sociology of medical error; disclosure, accountability, and responses to medical mistakes; and tensions between a model of individual responsibility and a systems approach, among other topics.
Center project staff: Nancy Berlinger, Mary Ann Baily
Funded by: Donaghue Foundation
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