Safety Gurus: Penalize Doctors Who Don’t Follow the Rules - Health Blog - WSJ

By Laura Landro

Should hospitals start penalizing doctors and nurses who fail to follow patient safety rules?

That’s one solution proposed by Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins and Robert Wachter of the University of California at San Francisco. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors contend that the failure to hold clinicians accountable for patient safety is the main reason health care is still riddled with errors, adverse events, and just plain non-adherence to some of the most basic rules.
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