A panel assembled by the National Patient Safety Foundation will meet later this month to assess the state of the patient safety field since the Institute of Medicine released To Err Is Human and set the stage for the next 15 years of work.
The panel will be co-chaired by Donald Berwick, MD, former CMS administrator, and Kaveh Shojania, MD, director of the Centre for Quality and Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto.
It will review the advances made in the patient safety field since To Err Is Human was released in 1999 and develop recommendations for future areas of focus.
"One of the goals of this project is to galvanize the field to move forward with a unified view of the future of patient safety and with an eye toward the [National Patient Safety Foundation] vision of creating a world where patients and those who care for them are free from harm," said Tejal Gandhi, MD, president and CEO of NPSF.
The panel will meet Feb. 23-24 in Boston and will release a report this summer.