Patient Safety Forum: Developing a Strategic Plan

Editor's Note: To encourage attention to medical errors in psychiatry, Psychiatric Services has introduced the Patient Safety Forum, a quarterly feature in which expert discussants address important questions in this area. Benjamin Grasso, M.D., is guest editor of the forum. The first forum appeared in the November 2003 issue. Contributing to this month's forum are James B. Conway, senior vice-president and chief operations officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (e-mail, james_conway@dfci.harvard.edu); Robert M. Hayes, president, and Tamara Reiss, education associate, of the Medicare Rights Center (e-mail, rhayes@medicarerights.org and treiss@medicarerights.org); Geetha Jayaram, M.D., M.B.A., physician advisor in the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital (e-mail, gjayara1@jhmi.edu); and Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Institute of Medicine (e-mail, fineberg@nas.edu).