Medical errors resulted in the death of my husband and a serious injury to my son. I believe that reforming the medical liability system is a crucial foundation for efforts to enhance quality of care in the American health care system. Working together, consumers can help to bring about the kind of changes we need that improve patient compensation, enhance accountability for health care providers, and facilitate patient safety initiatives.
Susan Sheridan
Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS), Founder and President
Interested in learning more about these issues? Please see the links below for additional information and resources.
 |
 |
|||
 |
Information about Legal Reform and Patient Safety
We've worked with leading academic researchers and policy advocates to develop proposals for alternative approaches to resolving medical injury litigation. Again, our primary goal is to find a way to tie the liability system to patient safety efforts. Articles published about this to date are listed below.
|
 |
||
 |
 |
|
|
|||
|
Improving Patient Safety: Steps Consumers Can Take
We have included below several sites for helpful information about steps you can take to ensure that you and your family get safe, high quality health care.
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|||
|
Information about Empowered Consumers Improving Health Care
Read more about organizations around the country that are working to address problems in the health and legal systems. |
|
||
|
|
