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Article: The Top 3 Patient Safety Concepts Influencing Hospital Design.
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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By Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
Hospital Building Teams are giving increasing attention to patient safety, and with good reason: The Institute of Medicine reports that as many as 1 out of 27 patients admitted into a hospital is harmed by preventable error, and that 1 out of 500 patients dies as a result of preventable error.
According to The Wall Street Journal , one hospital that set up a toll-free complaint line saw reports of medical errors or near-misses increase from 250 a month to 3,000 a month once an anonymous call-in number was established.
While many healthcare organizations are putting improved patient safety at the top of their ...
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