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Error Reporting and Injury Compensation: Advancing Patient Safety Through a State Patient Safety Organization Paul Barringer and Allen Kachalia, MD
Wyoming Law Review, August 1, 2008 The recent issue of the Wyoming Law Review covers many of the topics and issues raised at the April symposium, Health Care Reform and Patient Safety: Medical and Legal Challenges & Opportunities for Medicine and the Law, hosted by the University of Wyoming. Common Good General Counsel, Paul Barringer, and Harvard Medical School Professor, Allen Kachalia, gave a presentation at the forum which discussed patient safety, alternative approaches to medical injury compensation, and offered practical solutions for how Wyoming might make improvements in safety and compensation. This article provides even greater detail on how states have used patient safety organizations with voluntary and mandatory error reporting mechanisms to improve patient safety. Moreover, new federal legislation encourages the establishment of such organizations and reporting systems, and imbues them with certain confidentiality protections. The establishment of patient safety organizations could both improve error reporting and patient safety while also offering a venue for which to test alternative approaches to injury compensation. » article, » read more about the symposium
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