Patient safety authority enables sharing of lessons learned.
--The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority requires hospitals to report serious events and potentially harmful events. --Hospitals can be fined and physicians can lose licensing for failure to report events. --More than 50,000 events have been reported statewide since the system went on-line in July 2004.
D001363:Awards and Prizes; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D013219:State Government