In a recent Commonwealth Fund perspectives piece, Dr. Lucian Leape of Harvard's School of Public Health asserts that out of three approaches to improving patient safety, transparency and public reporting are the most effective. The other two approaches, regulation/accreditation and financial incentives, Leape contends, do not provide the same impetus for improvement that public reporting does, especially in a world where consumers increasingly and regularly access online rankings and publicly available data.
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