Patient Education
"Every human being ... has the right to determine what shall be done with his own body…”
Richter Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1914)
Wikipedia defines Patient Safety as:
"Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often lead to adverse healthcare events....".
Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization calls patient safety an endemic concern. >>more