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“Legal Innovations to Promote Patient Safety—An Introduction” provides an overview of legal innovations that could be adopted to reduce iatrogenic harm and is an invitation to a wider effort to discover more. Healthcare exists within a legal infrastructure that can do more to promote safety. Improvement is possible: some healthcare organizations provide better quality and safety than others. Legal innovations should facilitate patient safety innovations: their discovery, validation, and dissemination. Effective law will be evidence-based. Its guidelines are to be interdisciplinary, intervene at optimal levels of generality, impose no more pressure than necessary, regard legal innovations as provisional, and need to be evaluated (and then retained or replaced as results suggest). The law could in various ways support: innovation registries, research, technological advances, industry efforts to coordinate desired improvements, clinical practice guidelines, standard-setting, regulation and engaged surveillance, systems, and so on. The law must also be prepared to motivate adoption of safety innovations by restructuring incentives. |
