This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week. Patient safety issues are among the top 10 causes of death and disability globally.
It makes preventable harm in health care both a leading cause of death and health expenditures in the U.S.
In 2019, it found one in 10 patients in high-income countries suffer harm resulting from poor safety in the health care system.
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