It is rare to pick up an article or a book on patient safety without seeing reference to “medical
error” as the cause of patient harm. System theorists have attempted to convince health care …

The publication in 1999 of the report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) entitled To Err Is
Human has sparked considerable discussion about the incidence and etiology of errors in …

In October 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err Is Human: Building a Safer
Health Care System, a report that put the issues of patient safety and medical errors in front …

This book was created out of the belief that the science of discovery must begin to move
more rapidly toward the science of aplication. Its premise is that the focus on the number of …

A recent report on patient safety by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health
Care in America noted that there are at least 44,000 patient deaths from medical errors each …

In 2001, the UK Department of Health published a major report into patient safety, An
Organisation with a Memory [1]. It documented how individual actions and systemic failures …

The concept of error typically regards an action, not its outcome, and its meaning becomes
clear when separated into categories (medical error, nurse perceptions of (medication) error …

Among the most important aspects when creating, developing, and overseeing healthcare
facilities and systems are patient and staff safety [1]. The publication of The Institute of …

Article-at-a-Glance Background More than 200 health care policy makers and researchers,
clinicians, quality professionals, and other representatives of health care organizations …

Nearly a decade has passed since the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report To
Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. 1 With its frank assessment of the quality of …