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A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy. A PSO differs from a Federally designed Patient Safety Organization (PSO), which provides health care providers in the U.S. privilege and confidentiality protections for efforts to improve patient safety and the quality of patient care delivery (see 42 U.S.C. 299b-21 et seq. and www.PSO.AHRQ.gov.)
In the 1990s, reports in several countries revealed a staggering number of patient injuries and deaths each year due to avoidable errors and deficiencies in health care, among them adverse events and complications arising from poor infection control. In the United States, a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine called for a broad national effort to prevent these events, including the establishment of patient safety centers, expanded reporting of adverse events, and development of safety programs in healthcare organizations.[1] Although many PSOs are funded and run by governments, others have sprung from private entities such as industry, professional and consumer groups.
- ^ Institute of Medicine (1999). To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (1999). The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/9728. ISBN 978-0-309-26174-6. PMID 25077248. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2006-06-20.