RT Journal
A1 Pronovost PJ, Bo-Linn GW
T1 PReventing patient harms through systems of care
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD August 22
VO 308
IS 8
SP 769
OP 770
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.9537
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.9537
AB 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched Partnership for Patients, an ambitious national effort designed to substantially reduce 9 types of preventable harm and hospital readmissions.1 These harms include adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line–associated bloodstream infections, fall injuries, pressure ulcers, surgical site infections, venous thromboembolisms, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and obstetrical adverse events. Thousands of hospitals have agreed to participate and chose to focus on several harms because it was beyond their capacity to simultaneously address all 9 types of harm.