TY  - JOUR
T1  - PReventing patient harms through systems of care
AU  - Pronovost PJ, Bo-Linn GW
Y1  - 2012/08/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.9537
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 769
EP  - 770
VL  - 308
IS  - 8
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.9537
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.9537
ER  -