What is a direct outcome associated with the IOM report To Err is Human?

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What is a direct outcome associated with the IOM report To Err is Human?

The main idea here is how the IOM report reframed medical errors as a systemic safety issue and spurred broad policy action across health care. The direct outcome was the adoption of national patient safety initiatives. After the report highlighted the scale of preventable harm, governments, accrediting bodies, and health systems across the country began implementing coordinated safety programs, setting national safety goals, funding safety research, and promoting practices and reporting systems designed to reduce harm. The other options don’t fit because the report didn’t call for closing aging facilities, didn’t create new CPT coding categories, and didn’t involve reducing HIPAA privacy protections.

The main idea here is how the IOM report reframed medical errors as a systemic safety issue and spurred broad policy action across health care. The direct outcome was the adoption of national patient safety initiatives. After the report highlighted the scale of preventable harm, governments, accrediting bodies, and health systems across the country began implementing coordinated safety programs, setting national safety goals, funding safety research, and promoting practices and reporting systems designed to reduce harm.

The other options don’t fit because the report didn’t call for closing aging facilities, didn’t create new CPT coding categories, and didn’t involve reducing HIPAA privacy protections.

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