Blog excerpt: Physicians urged to take more active leadership role to improve quality and patient safety

Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released an article calling on physicians to work together and take a more active leadership role in the hopes that the action will help improve quality and patient safety.

This request doesn’t mean that the authors think physicians don’t work together, rather they’re saying that our current health care system is complicated for a single physician to be able to achieve higher levels of quality and safety on their own.

Traditionally, physicians and healthcare systems are judged on their compliance by identifying areas that need improvement or correction altogether.  The article suggests that physicians, healthcare providers, and accrediting bodies should go one step further and develop programs that identify excellence within healthcare systems.

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