Too often, prescribing errors occur due to programming errors or poor design and have less to do with the health workers using the system.
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Each year, inspectors visit Australian hospitals. But they’re less like secret shoppers who identify flaws, and more like guests of a carefully orchestrated performance. This needs to change.
Withdrawing funding for hospital errors might reduce costs, but won’t remove the causes of errors.
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
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Professor of Health Informatics and Patient Safety, Macquarie University