Patient Safety Begins With Access

This Viewpoint discusses the need to frame delays and failures in access to health care as patient safety events and to apply high-reliability organization principles to these access-related events to incorporate systematic analysis, leadership attention, and organizational accountability.

Corresponding Author: Victor J. Hassid, MD, MBA, Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 7007 Bertner Ave, 1MC23.3213, Houston, TX 77030 (vjhassid@mdanderson.org).

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