AHRQ Safety Expert to Co-Chair New National Committee to Reduce Patient Harm

AHRQ Safety Expert to Co-Chair New National Committee to Reduce Patient Harm









Jeffrey (Jeff) Brady, M.D., director of AHRQ’s Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, has been named co-chair of a new steering committee charged with reducing patient harms through increased coordination among organizations nationwide. The National Steering Committee for Patient Safety will create a National Action Plan for the Prevention of Health Care Harm to support the quest to eliminate patient harm and affirm safety as a national priority. Brady will be joined by co-chair Tejal Gandhi, M.D., chief clinical and safety officer for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), along with nearly two-dozen representatives from health care, policy, regulatory, and advocacy communities. The committee met for the first time today in Boston ahead of the 20th Annual IHI/National Patient Safety Foundation’s Patient Safety Congress. Access the AHRQ press release and a video of Dr. Brady.