A new way to curb harmful medical errors: talk more to patients and families
After increasing communication with patients and their families during hospital rounds, harmful medical errors fell by 38 percent.
A new study suggests a simple idea could go a long way toward curbing dangerous medical errors: looping in patients and families about what’s happening with their care.
It’s the latest evidence on the benefits of a long-running program to improve and streamline communications in hospitals. Called I-PASS, it was born at Boston Children’s Hospital and has since
