Human Error1 is one of the most widely cited references in medicine) was talking with
someone outside of health care, about medical error.“How is it,” they purportedly asked,” that …

It has been 4 years since the Institute of Medicine issued its legendary report" To Err Is
Human: Building a Safer Health System." 1 The findings were truly a wake, up call for the …

Linda]. Wanzer and Karen D. Dunlap hen tragic errors occur in health care, patients are
injured and often die victims of medical error. An over 'worked nurse may infuse the wrong …

A call to action for national Men’s Health Week Medical errors: 3rd leading cause of death
Initiative focuses on improving ca Page 1 May/June 2016 n The American Nurse n www.TheAmericanNurse.org …

NANCY W. DICKEY, MD A bit more than a decade ago, the country was bombarded by a
series of headlines announcing tragic medical errors that caused pain, increased costs, and …

Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err Is Human, which announced that up to ninety-
eight thousand people die each year from medical errors (IOM 2000). Although the shocking …

Ten years ago, The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the Harvard
Medical Practice Study (HMPS), which documented the high incidence of errors made on …

The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on medical errors galvanized the public and health
professionals. Before then, providers, health care organizations, and policymakers lacked …

A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes pervasive and expensive
problems in terms of patient injury, ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs. Simple …

92 NC Med J March/April 2005, Volume 66, Number 2 but it was far less lethal than To Err Is
Human claimed. And, they argued,“error” was a subjective, imprecise event that defied …