AHRQ Develops Pilot Program to Allow Patients, Families to Report Medical Mistakes

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a pilot program that would allow patients and their families to report medical mistakes directly to the federal government. The agency is hoping to gain approval for the project from the Obama administration.

The AHRQ hopes that issues such as medication errors, uncommunicative doctors and nurses, poor collaboration between providers, infections, failure of clinicians to disclose a mistake and unsanitary conditions would be reported. The claims would then be researched by the RAND Corporation and ECRI Institute.

The concerns could be reported through online or phone questionnaires.

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