Preventable Harm In Healthcare

Despite efforts to improve healthcare quality and safety, it is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in healthcare system. While a strong and just safety culture has been recognized as a key element for improvement, a critical deficit that has not yet been fully addressed is the lack of protective infrastructure to safeguard responsible, accurate reporting of quality and patient safety outcomes and concerns in most entities ( Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention,2014). In fact, as attention to creating a culture of safety in healthcare organizations has increased, so have concomitant reports of retaliation and intimidation targeting staff who voice concern about safety and quality deficiencies.