PHILADELPHIA — While strategies such as public reporting, transparency and using clinical decision support and electronic health records are necessary and effective to improving patient care, there is also a need to improve the culture in medicine, according to a presenter at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.
The best way to manage medical errors when they occur is to be open and honest with patients, Allen Kachalia, MD, JD, general internist, academic hospitalist and senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine, told Healio Primary Care (Read more...)
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