The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services remains acutely focused on patient harm and will introduce new measures addressing patient safety later this year, agency leaders said at an event in Baltimore Tuesday.
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These data may have impactful clinical and health policy implications, given that hospitalizations for CAP are known to be common and given the frequency of incorrect diagnoses.
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A VA program known as Surgical Pause received a national patient safety award. The Pause is a way of screening surgery patients with high risk of complications.