Foundation grantee, Johns Hopkins, with the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and Quality and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, have taken the bold move to define and ensure respectful care in the complex intensive care unit environment in an effort to eliminate preventable harms.
“Patients’ loss of dignity and lack of respectful treatment are harms that are just as important to prevent as hospital acquired infections and medical errors. The work by the Johns Hopkins team is a critical foundation from which we can build to ensure that all people receive care that is respectful and preserves their dignity, whether in the ICU or any other health care setting,” said Dominick Frosch, PhD, a fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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