Trump is laying waste to the agency that keeps hospital patients safe | Robert B Shpiner

Few have heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, but it has saved tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars When I started my training in 1980, we accepted an arithmetic that would now be indefensible. Central lines, the catheters we threaded into the great veins of the critically ill, became infected, and some of those patients died. We recorded the deaths as complications. Almost no one thought of them as preventable, because no one had yet done the slow work of…