THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE
Health and Medicine Division
Board on Health Care Services
Committee for a Peer Review of a Report on Strategies to Improve Patient Safety
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Congressional Briefing
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 – 11:00 a.m.
via Zoom
on
Peer Review of a Report on Strategies to Improve Patient Safety
Requested by Congress in P.L. 109-41, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, this new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reviews the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) draft report Strategies to Improve Patient Safety: Draft Report to Congress for Public Comment and Review. The National Academies convened a committee of four subject-matter experts with experience in clinical patient safety, patient-safety research, health information technology, safety science, clinical medicine, and implementation science to conduct a peer review of the draft report. This committee had less than three months to review the AHRQ draft report and comment on additional effective strategies for improving patient safety, new evidence of effectiveness for safety strategies, potential implementation methods that were not mentioned, and any general technical corrections.
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 created valuable national resources as part of the tools needed for systemic change. The committee offers these additional strategies to improve patient safety for consideration in the revision of the AHRQ draft report to Congress.
This briefing was for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on April 19, 2021 and can be found, in its entirety, on the Web site of the National Academies Press.