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Patient Safety
American Board of Internal Medicine endorses patient safety campaign
January 14th, 2007
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has formally endorsed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's "Five Million Lives" Campaign, an aggressive patient safety initiative that aims to eliminate five million needless hospital injuries or deaths in the next 2 years. As part of that, ABIM has agreed to accept safety-related measurement data collected by hospitals involved in the Campaign, so that physicians actively involved in the Campaign in those hospitals can receive credit toward the practice performance requirement of Maintenance of Certification - a program of ongoing learning and performance assessment required to maintain board certification. ...
Source: Patient Care Law Weekly (2007-01-14)
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