Opinion: To improve safety, hospitals should make ‘radical transparency’ real — and accessible
Covid-19 may be receding, but it’s leaving a quiet menace lurking in hospitals in its wake.
In a Perspective essay in The New England Journal of Medicine, four senior physicians with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned of a “severe” post-Covid decline in patient safety. The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology reached a similar conclusion, warning of a rise in “common, often-deadly” infections.
