Medical Error Legislation

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 …

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/patient-safety/statute-and-rule/index.html

Statute. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) establishes a voluntary reporting system designed to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues. To encourage the reporting and …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/working-reduce-medication-errors

A medication error is defined as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the …

Disclosure of Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/disclosure-errors

The National Medical Error Disclosure and …

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/national-medical-error-disclosure-and-compensation-medic-act

This bill, introduced to the Senate by Senators Clinton (D-NY) and Obama (D-IL), proposes a program under the direction of the U.S. Department of Health and …

The Role of Apology Laws in Medical …

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Apology laws aim to harness these therapeutic benefits, with the primary objective of reducing medical malpractice rates and costs. Well-formulated …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Due to unclear definitions, “medical errors” are difficult to scientifically measure. A lack of standardized nomenclature and overlapping definitions of …

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes--and can have …

Liability, Medical Error Legislation - The Hospitalist

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123146/liability-medical-error-legislation

Passed into law in July of last year, the HEALTH Act (or Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act), places multiple limits on liability claims. …

S.2038 - Medical Error Reduction Act of 2000 - Congress

https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/senate-bill/2038

Introduced in Senate (02/08/2000) Medical Error Reduction Act of 2000 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human …

Recent Legislative Efforts to Reduce Medical Errors, …

https://www.law.uh.edu/healthlaw/perspectives/MedicalProfessionals/030403Recent.html

The House bill (H.R. 663), known as the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA), establishes a voluntary error reporting system. The Health and Human …