About 400,000 Americans die annually from preventable medical harm, and medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a 2013 study.
The hearing, titled “More Than 1,000 Preventable Deaths a Day is Too Many: The Need to Improve Patient Safety,” has a powerhouse witness list. The witnesses will include:
• John James, PhD, founder of Patient Safety America
• Ashish Jha, MD, professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston
• Tejal Gandhi, MD, president of the National Patient Safety Foundation and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
• Peter Pronovost, PhD, senior vice president for patient safety and quality and director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, professor ad honorem at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in Minneapolis
• Lisa McGiffert, director of the Safety Patient Project
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