Rita K. Jew, PharmD, MBA, BCPPS
Reducing the risk for adverse events in hospitalized patients is as challenging as it was more than three decades ago when the Harvard Medical Practice Study first spotlighted the extent of patient harm in this care setting, according to a new report in The New England Journal of Medicine (2023;388[2]:142-153). The retrospective cohort study was based on a random sample of 2,809 admissions to 11 Massachusetts hospitals. It identified at least one