There is now a growing coalition of healthcare and other organizations calling for the establishment of a National Patient Safety Board to play a similar role in healthcare. Amrit Gil, MD.

Reps. Nanette Barragán, D-Calif., and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, reintroduced the National Patient Safety Board Act March 11, the start of Patient Safety Awareness Week.

Barragán’s bill follows a 2014 effort to create a national patient safety board to investigate incidents and make more providers’ safety records publicly available.

Barragán's bill follows a 2014 effort to create a national patient safety board to investigate incidents and make more providers' safety records publicly available.

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That’s the rationale behind calls to create a “National Patient Safety Board,” an independent federal agency that would be loosely modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board ...