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A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors.Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy.
Patient advocates give a voice to patients, survivors and their carers on healthcare-related (public) fora, informing the public, the political and regulatory world, health care providers (hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies etc.), organizations of health care professionals, the educational world, and the medical and pharmaceutical ...
The American Medical Association (AMA), an advocacy group for physicians, claims that increasing the scope of APNs does not increase access to care and can be dangerous because the responsibilities afforded to the professionals exceed the tasks that they can safely perform given their training, which is lower relative to physicians. [1]
In 1997, the AMA established the National Patient Safety Foundation as an independent, nonprofit research and education organization focused on patient safety. [64] Nancy W. Dickey was named president of the American Medical Association in June 1998. She was the first woman to head the organization and had been part of AMA's leadership since 1977.
American Family Physician—an editorially independent official peer-reviewed, clinical review medical journal for physicians and other health care professionals. Family Practice Management [ 7 ] —a peer-reviewed, practice improvement journal dedicated to offering practical ideas for better practice, better patient care, and a better work ...
The APSF marked the first use of the term "patient safety" in the name of professional reviewing organization. [10] Although anesthesiologists comprise only about 5% of physicians in the United States, anesthesiology became the leading medical specialty addressing issues of patient safety. [11]
[9] [10] ASCP was the first professional medical organization to set standards for laboratory professionals, which initially only required a recommendation from a member. [10] Those recommended were subsequently registered with ASCP, hence name the Board of Registry. [10]
Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [1] [2] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review, nursing peer review).