More than 200 medical schools, teaching hospitals and health systems will participate in the program, whose five initial components are:
1. Teach the next generation of doctors about the importance of quality and patient safety through formal curricula.
2. Ensure safer surgery through use of surgical checklists.
3. Reduce infections from central lines using proven protocols.
4. Reduce hospital readmissions for high-risk patients.
5. Research, evaluate and share new and improved practices.
AAMC plans to release the initiative’s first progress report by February 2012.
Read the AAMC news release on the “Best Practices for Better Care” campaign.
Read more coverage on patient safety:
– Study Suggest Providers Overuse Last-Resort Antibiotics
– Updating Our Understanding of “Flash” Sterilization: The Need to Improve Practices
