accountability
Accountability for Morbidity & Mortality
Yearly, approximately 100,000 patients die of health care–associated infections, about another 100,000 die from other preventable errors, and "tens of thousands more die of diagnostic errors or failure to receive recommended therapies."1-3
Who's the Keeper of the Commons?
Garrett Hardin, professor of biology, University of California, Santa Barbara’s essay “The Tragedy of the Commons”1 tells us about herders who, not out of greed, but out of practical necessity graze more cattle than the finite, common land can support, ruining it for everyone.
Why Primary Care Suffers
Health care reform while focusing to a great extent on reforming healthcare insurance is myopic about delivery-system reforms that "will be required to improve the quality and coordination of health care and slow the growth of spending."
